That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“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
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
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — 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
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“People don't love each other at our age —they please each other, that's all. Later on when you're old and impotent, you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Oh no, oh no,' she said through her tears, 'I'm so in love with love,' and, intelligent and outstanding in so many… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. — 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 always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. — 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
