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. – Albert Camus
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. – Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. – Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. – Albert Camus
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. – Albert Camus
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. – Albert Camus
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. – Albert Camus
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers. – Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – 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. – Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better…. – Albert Camus
Life is the sum of all your choices. – Albert Camus
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. – Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules. – Albert Camus
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus
