... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice… — 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
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However,… — 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
