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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.