Albert Camus

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

"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."

"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."

"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."

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

"If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)"

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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