I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. — 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
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — 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
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — 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
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion… — 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
What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order… — 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
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — 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