Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"I rebel; therefore I exist."

"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"A free man is one who doesn't fear to go to the end of his thought."

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

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

"The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner."

"To lose one's life is a little thing and I shall have the courage to do so if it is necessary; but to see the point of life destroyed, that is something I cannot bear."

"Wealth and want are the only social classes in the modern world."

"The absurd is the only concept I know that is not a philosophy."

"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."

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

"The only method for dealing with an unfree world is to become so free that one's very existence is an act of rebellion."

"But what does that mean, your honor? All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims."

"Art is rebellion against the formless."

"One should not surrender to one man what is lawfully one's own."

"The only way to cope with an unfree world is to be completely free within yourself."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"Every moment counts in a world that only allows us the present instant."

"The evidence I have against him is not without value."

"Realism is, in a sense, truth without interpretation."

"Thought cannot exhaust existence because existence precedes thought."

"There is no escape from the truth within oneself."

"The only logical conclusion from the evidence would be acquittal."

"The artist forges the uncreated conscience of his race."