Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much… — 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
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. — 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
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — 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
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit,… — 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