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 most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies… — 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
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
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware… — 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
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — 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
