Just love all of the e.e.cumming quotes. Thanks for the sunshine in our often dreary world. Deming is for me drudgery. I had to work myself through job related lectures about "14 Management Principles", 13 of which I have forgotten by now. Having a couple of professional photographers in the family, I am familiar with Ruth Bernhard"s work. The things you pick up when you are the designated typist for college students.

Zig Ziglar Quotes American - Author November 6, 1926 - November 28, 2012 What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. Zig Ziglar The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. Zig Ziglar With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. Zig Ziglar Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success. Zig Ziglar Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. Zig Ziglar You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. Zig Ziglar People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome. Zig Ziglar You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. Zig Ziglar You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems. Zig Ziglar Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur. Zig Ziglar Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. Zig Ziglar The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist. Zig Ziglar When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born. Zig Ziglar Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.' Zig Ziglar There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. Zig Ziglar Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. Zig Ziglar It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important. Zig Ziglar Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day. Zig Ziglar You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference. Zig Ziglar If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. Zig Ziglar It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one. Zig Ziglar Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity. Zig Ziglar Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Zig Ziglar Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? Zig Ziglar People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. Zig Ziglar It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. Zig Ziglar The right quote can inspire people to change their ways. Zig Ziglar Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily. Zig Ziglar Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have. Zig Ziglar Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. Zig Ziglar Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute. Zig Ziglar You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. Zig Ziglar To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. Zig Ziglar I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives. Zig Ziglar If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. Zig Ziglar Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can. Zig Ziglar Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead! Zig Ziglar If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. Zig Ziglar The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. Zig Ziglar We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone. Zig Ziglar Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. Zig Ziglar The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made. Zig Ziglar You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind. Zig Ziglar Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work. Zig Ziglar Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend. Zig Ziglar Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. Zig Ziglar Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet. Zig Ziglar Every obnoxious act is a cry for help. Zig Ziglar I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.' Zig Ziglar If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. Zig Ziglar New information makes new and fresh ideas possible. Zig Ziglar Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you. Zig Ziglar I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. Zig Ziglar Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting. Zig Ziglar Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. Zig Ziglar Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. Zig Ziglar Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar A goal properly set is halfway reached. Zig Ziglar If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. Zig Ziglar Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients. Zig Ziglar Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Zig Ziglar The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents. Zig Ziglar Dreams grow if you grow. Zig Ziglar I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings. Zig Ziglar Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me. Zig Ziglar If you want to earn more, learn more. Zig Ziglar I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally. Zig Ziglar Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it. Zig Ziglar When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. Zig Ziglar The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job. Zig Ziglar True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. Zig Ziglar Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. Zig Ziglar I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved. Zig Ziglar Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown. Zig Ziglar Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. Zig Ziglar I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days! Zig Ziglar If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. Zig Ziglar Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation. Zig Ziglar We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs. Zig Ziglar If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. Zig Ziglar You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there. Zig Ziglar Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. Zig Ziglar A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere. Zig Ziglar You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. Zig Ziglar U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things. Zig Ziglar Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America? Zig Ziglar Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do. Zig Ziglar Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Zig Ziglar If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag. Zig Ziglar Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good. Zig Ziglar It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. Zig Ziglar He climbs highest who helps another up. Zig Ziglar As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others. Zig Ziglar Success must never be measured by how much money you have. Zig Ziglar It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Zig Ziglar Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. Zig Ziglar Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. Zig Ziglar Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things. Zig Ziglar Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Zig Ziglar New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive. Zig Ziglar People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. Zig Ziglar I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me. Zig Ziglar It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others. Zig Ziglar Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves. Zig Ziglar People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. Zig Ziglar Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. Zig Ziglar You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. Zig Ziglar The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn. Zig Ziglar In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in! Zig Ziglar I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. Zig Ziglar You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have. Zig Ziglar The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel. Zig Ziglar

Albert Camus Quotes French - Philosopher November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960 Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. Albert Camus Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. 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. Albert Camus You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. Albert Camus Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus 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. Albert Camus In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. Albert Camus Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Albert Camus 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. Albert Camus Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Albert Camus A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. Albert Camus No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. Albert Camus In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus 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. Albert Camus How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. Albert Camus Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. Albert Camus There is no love of life without despair of life. Albert Camus The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Albert Camus As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. Albert Camus Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. Albert Camus Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. Albert Camus Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. Albert Camus Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. Albert Camus We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. Albert Camus A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. Albert Camus Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. Albert Camus The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. Albert Camus All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert Camus To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? Albert Camus Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Albert Camus There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. Albert Camus How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! Albert Camus Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. Albert Camus The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. Albert Camus Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. Albert Camus The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Albert Camus Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. Albert Camus We are all special cases. Albert Camus It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. Albert Camus Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. Albert Camus It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. Albert Camus We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Albert Camus The society based on production is only productive, not creative. Albert Camus To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. Albert Camus The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. Albert Camus In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. Albert Camus What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. Albert Camus Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Albert Camus Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. Albert Camus The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. Albert Camus Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Albert Camus Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. Albert Camus Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Albert Camus By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Albert Camus For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. Albert Camus We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. Albert Camus He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. Albert Camus It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. Albert Camus Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. Albert Camus The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. Albert Camus Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. Albert Camus Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. Albert Camus I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. Albert Camus Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. Albert Camus We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. Albert Camus Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. Albert Camus The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. 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. Albert Camus Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. Albert Camus Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. Albert Camus Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. Albert Camus Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? Albert Camus When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. Albert Camus Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. Albert Camus Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. Albert Camus I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. Albert Camus You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade. Albert Camus There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. Albert Camus A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Albert Camus After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Albert Camus Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. Albert Camus I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. Albert Camus In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. Albert Camus Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. Albert Camus Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. Albert Camus Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. Albert Camus Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. Albert Camus Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Albert Camus We call first truths those we discover after all the others. Albert Camus Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Albert Camus To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. Albert Camus The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. Albert Camus Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. Albert Camus

I always wondered what would have happened if he would have lived.