Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as… — 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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent… — 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
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so,… — 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
If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel.… — 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
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