Albert Camus

"'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. "

"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. "

"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. "

"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. "

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. "

"Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. "

"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. "

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. "

"Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. "

"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. "

"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. "

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. "

"History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. "

"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. "

"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. "

"I know of only one duty, and that is to love. "

"I love my country too much to be a nationalist. "

"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers. "

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. "

"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. "

"Integrity has no need of rules. "

"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature. "

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

"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. "

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

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. "

"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. "

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. "

"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. "

"The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind. "

"The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism. "

"The truth, as the light, makes blind. "

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. "

"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. "

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. "

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. "

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

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

"What is a rebel A man who says no. "

"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. "

"Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. "

"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. "

"You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. "