“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Tarrou had "lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He… — 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
