Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus

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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus

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Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
~ Albert Camus

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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus

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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
~ Albert Camus

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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus

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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
~ Albert Camus

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The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. “Everything is permitted” does not mean that nothing is forbidden.
~ Albert Camus

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