Albert Camus

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."

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

"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"

"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."

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

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."

"...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

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

"որևէ քաղաք ճանաչելու ամենաճիշտ ձևերից մեկն էլ իմանալն է, թե ինչպե՞ս են այնտեղ աշխատում, ինչպե՞ս են սիրում, և ինչպե՞ս են մեռնում:"

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

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

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."