There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon.” — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy. — 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
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
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
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
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
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
“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
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.… — 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
“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
“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
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
... 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
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” — 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
“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.” — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
