Albert Camus

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

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

"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."

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

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

"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."

"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."

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

"I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."

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

"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."

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

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

"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."

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

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

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

"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."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."