Albert Camus

The only way to fight the plague is with decency.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The world is not absurd, it is. The absurd is the only relationship between the world and man.

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

I rebel; therefore I exist.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

The truth is that every man is a murderer, and we kill in our dreams and our indifference, but also in our deeds.

Live to the point of tears.

Sincerity is not a virtue. It is a vice.

What is freedom? The right to be wrong.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

To suffer is one thing, to suffer and understand why is another.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and in others.

What is character? It is a man's willingness to be himself.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

The greatest crime is not to commit a crime, but to hide it.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

There are times in life when the question of 'knowing' whether or not you are loved no longer matters. What matters is knowing that you love.

The only way to grieve is to destroy the world.