... 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
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly. — 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
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way... — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — 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
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — 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