I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. — 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