Albert Camus Quotes

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

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

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.