We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of… — 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
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy. — 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
“Indeed the Here and Now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and… — 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
“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
“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy. — 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
