I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything.… — 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
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on… — 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
“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
