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
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we;… — 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
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
. habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. — 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
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is… — 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
