A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus Quote

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus Quote

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
- Albert Camus Quote

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
- Albert Camus Quote

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
- Albert Camus Quote

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Albert Camus Quote

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
- Albert Camus Quote

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus Quote

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
- Albert Camus Quote

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
- Albert Camus Quote

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
- Albert Camus Quote

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
- Albert Camus Quote

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Albert Camus Quote

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
- Albert Camus Quote

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus Quote

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus Quote

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
- Albert Camus Quote

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
- Albert Camus Quote

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
- Albert Camus Quote

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus Quote

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
- Albert Camus Quote

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
- Albert Camus Quote

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
- Albert Camus Quote

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
- Albert Camus Quote

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
- Albert Camus Quote

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
- Albert Camus Quote

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus Quote

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
- Albert Camus Quote

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
- Albert Camus Quote

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus Quote

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
- Albert Camus Quote

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
- Albert Camus Quote

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- Albert Camus Quote

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
- Albert Camus Quote

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
- Albert Camus Quote

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus Quote

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus Quote

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus Quote

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
- Albert Camus Quote

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus Quote