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
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.” — 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
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — 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
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts… — 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
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself… — 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