Albert Camus

(7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960) Algerian-French and

Attributed

• "Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower."

• "Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."

• "La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d'homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."
  • Translation: "The fight itself towards the summits suffices to fill a heart of man; it is necessary to imagine Sisyphus happy."

• "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

• "Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

• "Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."
  • Translation: "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

• "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

• "There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."

• "The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."

• "If something worth living for is worth dying for, what about something not worth dying for?"

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

• "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."

• "He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."

• "If the world were clear, art would not exist."

• "The philosopher, even if he is Kant, is a creator."

• "The fecundity and the importance of a literary form are often measured by the trash it contains."

• "C'est bien là le génie : l'intelligence qui connaît ses frontières."
  • Translation: "That's what a genius is, an intelligence that knows its limits."

• "All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football."