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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

—  Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise ... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

—  Albert Camus

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

—  Albert Camus

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

—  Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

—  Albert Camus

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

—  Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

—  Albert Camus

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.

—  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

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence.

—  Albert Camus