... 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
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
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
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the… — 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
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
“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
“In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must… — 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
“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For the plague-stricken their peace of mind is more important than a human life. Decent folks must be allowed to sleep easy… — 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
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. — 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
“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
“That was unthinkable, he said; all men believe in God, even those who reject Him. Of this he was absolutely sure; if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Even the most gifted person needs someone to initiate him. The one that life puts in your path one day, that person… — 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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