There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, after all, to say that I have never loved. In my life, I have had at least one great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and… — 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
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It would be the most peaceful to love in silence, but there are consciousness and personality, so we have to speak. And… — 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