Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But it's not easy, because friendship is absent-minded or at least powerless. It cannot achieve what it wants. Perhaps, after all, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
