Quotes by Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

Dont wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.