Albert Camus Essentials Quotations

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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.

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.