Albert Camus Quotes

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The suffering of little children is not what is so intolerable, but the fact that it is undeserved.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it -- just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone.

I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent, untroubled sleep.

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.