“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to… — 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
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
“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
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be… — Albert camus Copy Share Image
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his… — 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 as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for… — 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
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
