In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies… — 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
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — 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
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold… — 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
