When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. – Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. – Albert Camus
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. Ive never seen women with shoulders on their backs. – Coco Chanel
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour