“The first thing to do is to keep silent – to abolish audiences and learn to be your own judge. To keep… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is true that freedom, when it is made up principally of privileges, insults labor and separates it from culture. But freedom… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — 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
[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation… — 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