Albert Camus

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.

Albert Camus

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

Albert Camus

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Albert Camus

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

Albert Camus

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Albert Camus

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Albert Camus