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Albert Camus

(1913 – 1960) An Algerian–French author, journalist, and Absurdist philosopher. He was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any Nobel literature laureate to date.

A fate is not a punishment.

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

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

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

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.

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

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

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.

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.

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