“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for… — 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
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. — 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
“There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“the simplifications of hatred and prejudice, which embitter and perpetuate the Algerian conflict, must be combated on a daily basis, and one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace — the world and the heart know nothing about it.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid,"… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and… — 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
