For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — 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
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
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
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
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they… — 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
My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. — 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
