“Rieux knew what the old man was thinking at that moment as he wept, and he thought the same: that this world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning and thinking of his beloved… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four… — 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
“Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really,… — 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
“And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful… — 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