Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
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.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
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.
Integrity has no need of rules.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
