Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Albert Camus.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
