“Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the… — 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
“For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things… — 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
“And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while… — 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
“You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying that it is not worthwhile…But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What awaited me back then was always a night of easy, dreamless sleep.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times: 'This is the way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
