The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus The society based on production is only productive, not creative. Albert Camus creativity ideas knowledge The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself. Albert Camus philosophical everyday important An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. Albert Camus life-changing philosophy mean A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. Albert Camus used three lying Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself. Albert Camus experience-yourself wall writing If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. Albert Camus want happens life There is scarcely any passion without struggle. Albert Camus existentialism passion struggle Life should be lived to the point of tears Albert Camus tears should When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus summer happiness life The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus purpose writing civilization There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus creating order mean Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus innocence nostalgia essence The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus wisdom wise life But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't. Albert Camus should-have years thinking That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3 Albert Camus sacrifice love giving Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. Albert Camus atheism truth life It's better to bet on this life than on the next. Albert Camus this-life next Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Albert Camus no-hope incumbents life To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate Albert Camus fate shapes giving One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus flakes imagine struggle