You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

— Albert Camus

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

— Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

— Albert Camus

You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

— Albert Camus

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be defined according to one's wishes. You supposed that in the absence of any human or divine code the only values were those of the animal world—in other words, violence and cunning. Hence, you concluded that man was negligible and that his soul could be killed, that in the maddest of histories the only pursuit for the individual was the adventure of power and his own morality, the realism of conquests.

— Albert Camus

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

— Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

— Albert Camus

You see, Result, all the misery and cruelty of our civilization can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

— Albert Camus

You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation, and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for you to serve the politics of reality whereas, in our wildest aberrations, we still had a vague conception of the politics of honor.

— Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus