Albert Camus

French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.