Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity. And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is… — 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
