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The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?
The Plague (1948)
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
Visions from Earth (2004)
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
The Grand Inquisitor is old and tired, for the knowledge he possesses is bitter.
The Rebel (1951)
And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean.
The Rebel (1951)
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Revolt is the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it.
Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt (2014)
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
The Rebel (1951)
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Notebooks (1963)
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
The Plague (1947)
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
The Rebel (1951)
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)