Albert Camus

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

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

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

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should read more

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything read more

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

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.