Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.