“ I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He tooconcludes that all is well. Thi… Albert Camus
“ Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him up in a few… Albert Camus
“ If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. Albert Camus
“ But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager wou… Albert Camus
“ I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. Albert Camus
“ You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out. Hap… Albert Camus
“ But 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 equivalence, the death penalty wou… Albert Camus
“ In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations… Albert Camus
“ How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. Albert Camus
“ Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Albert Camus
“ It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: Close the window, it's too beautiful. Albert Camus