It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to… — 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
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If I ask myself how to judge that this question is more urgent than that, I reply that one judges by the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Living with one’s passions amounts to living with one’s sufferings, which are the counterpoise, the corrective, the balance and the price. When… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of… — albert camus Copy Share Image
“Before her the stars were falling one by one and being snuffed out among the stones of the desert, and each time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In different degrees, in every part of the town, men and women had been yearning for a reunion, not of the same… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me… — 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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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