There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds… — 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
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
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Squeezed against each other in the heavy heat, they were silent...looking toward the home that was expecting them--quiet, perspiring, resigned to this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in… — 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
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great… — 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
“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
