If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — 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 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
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into… — 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
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head.… — 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
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