What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus “To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.” Albert Camus despair men thinking Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty. Albert Camus doubt doe needs From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question. Albert Camus passion law heart To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style. Albert Camus winning war peace The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. Albert Camus greatness men lying The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. Albert Camus absurd If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers. Albert Camus brother blessing hands For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. Albert Camus self trying water I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. Albert Camus believe people ideas Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Albert Camus cynical democracy political ...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered. Albert Camus mind play Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. Albert Camus killing dying order The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. Albert Camus crush fate heart To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. Albert Camus principles impossible love The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. Albert Camus absurd limits reason By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus definitions politics government There is always a philosophy for lack of courage. Albert Camus cowardice philosophy There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. Albert Camus never-change unjust lows Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring. Albert Camus midst winter spring Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Albert Camus principles evil reality
