The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. — 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
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
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. — 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
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation. — 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
