“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Only the modern city,” Hegel dares write, “offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself.” We are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this… — 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
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