He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Tag: Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.