Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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.

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

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

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

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.