Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“He had never loved anything except what was inevitable. The people fate had imposed on him, the world as it appeared to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling… — 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
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“in the strange dizziness of that moment, the statue every man eventually erects and that hardens in the fire of the years,… — 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
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make… — 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
“Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the reasons of the… — 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
“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
“When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“STEPAN: Innocence? Yes, maybe I know what that means. But I prefer to shut my eyes to it—and to shut others’ eyes… — 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
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd… — 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
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so… — 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
“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — 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
