Albert Camus

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

It is not the rebel who is the criminal, but the law that makes him so.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The world is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

If I had to write a book on ethics, it would have a hundred pages. Ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write: 'I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.'

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature who insists on having one.

A man's life is nothing but a slow trek to death.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Truth, like light, is not subject to custom.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.

The only true creation is to be free.

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.