اقتباسات ملهمة من ألبير كامو

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

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way..

We are all born mad, some remain so.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question...

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.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true universitytrutthese days is a collection of books.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.