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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Albert Camus

People

Welfare

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Albert Camus

Suicide

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

Fate

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

Change

Will

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

Love

Principles

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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

Albert Camus

Art