Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

— Albert Camus

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

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.

— Albert Camus

After a while you could get used to anything.

— Albert Camus

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.

— Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

— Albert Camus

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

— Albert Camus