We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too… — 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
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one… — 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
