Camus, Albert

"There can be no peace unless peoples recognize the equality of man."

"The time is always ripe to do right."

"Achieving life is not the opposite of refusing to live."

"A guilty man is not our subject but rather an innocent one."

"True debauchery is not to be found in the body."

"The only real rival of the truth is silence."

"You will never be happy if you look for what happiness consists of."

"I believe the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions."

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

"To live without appealing to anything that is not concrete and immediate is the philosophy of mad men."

"We cannot assert the absurd without seeming absurd."

"Courage is the only virtue on which the others depend."

"There is no escape for any of us, neither for the king nor the most wretched."

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."

"The only victory I can conceive is spiritual."

"Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of hope."

"I began to realize that my task was not so much to think about absurdity, but to define myself by it."

"We are all special cases."

"If I were a woman, I would never want to fool with a man if he wasn't willing to get on his knees."

"True passion is not consoling; it burns."

"Every act of rebellion is, in essence, an act of hope."

"The only real luxury is not having to obey."

"In this dark moment when truth cannot win, I tell you I have chosen neither side."

"One's deeds are an index of one's character."

"To live without style means to perish without being remembered."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"In order to live, one must be motivated by something stronger than fear."

"To be alone does not necessarily mean being unhappy."

"The only values that are certain and absolute are individual and subjective."

"I would like to be able to breathe."