The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — 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
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
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — 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
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing… — 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
