Albert Camus

There is no love of life without despair of life. ”

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. ”

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. ”

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ”

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. ”

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. ”

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. ”

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. ”

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. ”