“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mind you, do not think that my affection for you is blind. You have great, very great faults, at least in my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Oh no, oh no,' she said through her tears, 'I'm so in love with love,' and, intelligent and outstanding in so many… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3 — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way... — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You do not have to unburden your soul for everyone; it will be enough if you do that for those you love.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to… — 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
