Albert Camus

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

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."

"No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

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

"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."

"There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"Live to the point of tears."

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

"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."

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

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

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

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

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

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

"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."

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

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