There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

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

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

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

We are all special cases.
Albert Camus

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus