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
“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library,… — 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 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
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's… — 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
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, after all, to say that I have never loved. In my life, I have had at least one great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now… — 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
“Nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than… — 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
“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
“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
