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
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make… — 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
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — 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
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it… — 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
