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
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It would be the most peaceful to love in silence, but there are consciousness and personality, so we have to speak. And… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. — 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