It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but just in time, I remembered that I had killed… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live… — 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
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But… — 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
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Week after week we were reduced to starting the same letter over again and copying out the same appeals, so that after… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What I'm sure of is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He had loved is mother and his child, everything that it was not up to him to choose. And after all he,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. One must live with time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A moment later she asked me if I loved her. I said that sort of question had no meaning, really; but I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” — 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
