Quotes
Quotes - Camus
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
