Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — 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
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the… — 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