Albert Camus

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. ”

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. ”

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. ”

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

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. ”

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. ”

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. ”

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ”

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. ”

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. ”