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… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across… — albert camus Copy Share Image
“Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. — 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
“One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infection is a good bottle… — 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
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. — 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