It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — 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
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... 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
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — 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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the… — 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
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 have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything.… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
