“When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. — 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
I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the reasons of the… — 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
To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Indeed the Here and Now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. One must live with time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“From time to time I meet people who live among riches I cannot even imagine. I still have to make an effort… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He had loved is mother and his child, everything that it was not up to him to choose. And after all he,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — 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
“Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was wrong, after all, to tell you that the essential was to avoid judgement. The essential is being able to permit… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was… — 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
