Albert Camus

“What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.”

“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”

“Don't let them tell us stories”

“And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from the world because to each moment clung a whole mass of mortal images. For five years the earth has not seen a single morning without death agonies, a single evening without prisons, a noon without slaughter.”

“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.”

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

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

“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.”

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

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

“There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart.”

“When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.”

“If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.”

“You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.”

“Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.”

“...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?”

“We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks [we] take a long time to accomplish, that’s all.”

“To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“Integrity has no need of rules.”