ALBERT CAMUS

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."

"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking."

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."

"We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us."

"You can't create experience, you undergo it."

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."

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

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

"I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man."

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."

"To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end."

"I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored"

"We are all born mad, some remain so."

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"

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

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

"A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened."