To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a… — 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
