There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and,… — 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
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
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists… — 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
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
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — 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
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet… — 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
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
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
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
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
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
