When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.” — 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
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — 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
