Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — 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
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a… — 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
There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were… — 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
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — 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
