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
“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
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless. — 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
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — 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
“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
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — 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
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
“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
“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
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything… — 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
“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
“And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning and thinking of his beloved… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire… — 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
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there… — 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
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot… — 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
“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
Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day… — 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
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 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
