Albert Camus

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the read more

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares read more

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to read more

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.