There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible Pindar, Pythian iii” — 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
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But it's not easy, because friendship is absent-minded or at least powerless. It cannot achieve what it wants. Perhaps, after all, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. — 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
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“he broke in and wanted to know how I imagined this other life. So I shouted: 'A life that would remind me… — 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
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a meaning or rather this problem would… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we;… — 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
“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
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
“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
“Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Well, so I'm going to die.' Sooner than other people will, obviously. But everybody knows life isn't worth living. Deep down I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane or static life, the long anguish of living… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“How did I picture the life after the grave? I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in… — 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
