Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken. – Albert Camus
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. – Albert Camus
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. – Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. – Albert Camus
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. – Albert Camus
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. – Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. – Albert Camus
I know of only one duty, and that is to love. – Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. – Albert Camus
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. – Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. – Albert Camus
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. – Albert Camus
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. – Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. – Albert Camus
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. – Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. – Albert Camus
