Albert Camus

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? ”

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ”

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ”

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. ”

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. ”

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. ”

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. ”

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. ”

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ”

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ”