“And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That evening Marie came by to see me and asked me if I wanted to marry her. I said it didn’t make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“From time to time I meet people who live among riches I cannot even imagine. I still have to make an effort… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in… — 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
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give… — 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
“Somebody has to have the last word. Otherwise, every reason can be answered with another one and there would never be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy. — 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
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another. — 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
“Indeed the Here and Now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of… — 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
