One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — 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
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. — 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
