“Gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart… — 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
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. — 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
“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
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — 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
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,… — 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
“I know. I’m sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the… — 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
“How wonderful that must be! What we call spring here is one rose and a couple of buds struggling to keep alive… — 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
“Aren’t you sentient human beings? Or are you living like animals for the moment only? In that case by all means indulge… — 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
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — 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
“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
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — 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
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with… — 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