Albert Camus

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day…

— Albert Camus

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

— Albert Camus

“You can't create experience, you undergo it.”

— Albert Camus

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

— Albert Camus

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and…

— Albert Camus

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying…

— Albert Camus

“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be…

— Albert Camus

“Living with one’s passions amounts to living with one’s sufferings, which are the counterpoise, the corrective, the balance and the price. When…

— Albert Camus

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

— Albert Camus

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the…

— Albert Camus

“It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair.”

— Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

— Albert Camus

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is…

— Albert Camus

“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and…

— Albert Camus

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live…

— Albert Camus

Integrity has no need of rules.

— Albert Camus

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time…

— Albert Camus

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

— Albert Camus

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

— Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the…

— Albert Camus

“She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute…

— Albert Camus

“Storm sky in August. Gusts of hot wind. Black clouds. Yet in the East is a delicate, transparent band of blue sky.…

— Albert Camus

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

— Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

— Albert Camus