In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we… — 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
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
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — 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
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
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. — 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
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