To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a… — 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
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It 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 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