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
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
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. — 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
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
“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything 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
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
“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
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
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that… — 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 have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — 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
“Rieux knew what the old man was thinking at that moment as he wept, and he thought the same: that this world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“So, with all the sleep, my memories, reading my crime story, and the alternation of light and darkness, time passed. Of course… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” — 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
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
