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."

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

"I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."

"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."

"Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate."

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

"I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life."

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

"But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself."

"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."

"It is better to burn than to disappear."

"And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."

"If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it."

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

"I know simply that the sky will last longer than I."

"I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world."

"The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

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

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?"