Albert Camus

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. QOTD 2007·11·07 Sound file

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?