A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

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

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus


All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

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

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus

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

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus