Albert Camus

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

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

The world is never quiet. Even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

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

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

"but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand"

"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and best of a life are devoted to earning that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."

La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d'homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.

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