May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!! — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You see, I’ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But it's not easy, because friendship is absent-minded or at least powerless. It cannot achieve what it wants. Perhaps, after all, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For instance, I had a friend I generally avoided. He rather bored me, and, besides, he was something of a moralist. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Indeed the Here and Now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Tarrou had "lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“February 13, 1936 I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as… — albert camus Copy Share Image
I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less… — 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
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of… — 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
