Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — 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
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. — 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
