“Our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times: 'This is the way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I can't agree; he's incapable of suffering for a long time,or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times… — 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
“I was wrong, after all, to tell you that the essential was to avoid judgement. The essential is being able to permit… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hearing was adjourned. For a few brief moments, as I left the Law Courts on my way to the van, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt… — 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
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or… — 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
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. — 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
“In any case, if the reader would have a correct idea of the mood of these exiles, we must conjure up once… — 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
