“An attempt is made to get him to admit his guilt. He feels innocent. To tell the truth, that is all he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A ridiculous fear pursued me, in fact: one could not die without having confessed all one's lies. Not to God or to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A mi edad es uno sincero forzosamente. Mentir cansa mucho. (Tarrou a Rambert)” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.” — 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
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — 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
