Albert Camus

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. ”

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. ”

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. ”

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ”

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. ”

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. ”

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

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. ”

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ”

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. ”