All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny or at least there is but one which he concludes is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, 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
