Q0352

Albert Camus

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Thinker Albert Camus
School Philosophy of the absurd
Source Return to Tipasa
Theme Hope
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Return to Tipasa, within the tradition of Philosophy of the absurd. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of hope, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Albert Camus's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Albert Camus. (n.d.). In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0352

MLA: Albert Camus. “In the midst of winter, I found there….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0352.

Chicago: Albert Camus. “In the midst of winter, I found there….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0352.

Same thinker

More from Albert Camus

  1. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
  2. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
  3. I rebel — therefore we exist.
  4. There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
  5. Rebellion cannot do without the notion of a limit — it stops at human dignity.

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Same theme

More on hope

  1. There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
  2. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
  3. Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being… a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me.
  4. Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination.
  5. Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

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