We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — 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
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
There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold… — 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