Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. ”

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. ”

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. ”

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ”

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ”

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. ”

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ”

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. ”

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. ”

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ”