I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill.… — 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
“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some… — 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
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women… — 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
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.'… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed… — 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
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most… — 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
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — 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
It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one… — 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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