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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all. By Albert Camus

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. By Albert Camus

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. By Albert Camus

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible. By Albert Camus

In those quiet places where my heart once spoke to yours ... I breathed eternal summer. By Albert Camus

Even the sea had lost its deep blue colour and, beneath the misty sky, took on the sheen of silver or iron, making it painful to look at. By Albert Camus

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. By Albert Camus

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. By Albert Camus

It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time. By Albert Camus

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. By Albert Camus

They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine By Albert Camus

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. By Albert Camus

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. By Albert Camus

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. By Albert Camus

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. By Albert Camus

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. By Albert Camus

But everykind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future. By Albert Camus

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. By Albert Camus

Love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love eachother silently. By Albert Camus

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities. By Albert Camus

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic. By Albert Camus

Together again, Marie and I swam out a ways, and we felt a closeness as we moved in unison and were happy. By Albert Camus

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture. By Albert Camus

Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy. By Albert Camus

Life is not easy, but there would be religion, art, love that we sustain ourselves with. By Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious smallidea, once he turns his back on love. Andthat's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love. By Albert Camus

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction. By Albert Camus

Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point. By Albert Camus

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble. By Albert Camus

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man. By Albert Camus

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them. By Albert Camus

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. By Albert Camus

I meet with my soulmate but she didn't. By Albert Camus

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. By Albert Camus

Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today? By Albert Camus

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport. By Albert Camus

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. By Albert Camus

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly. By Albert Camus

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. By Albert Camus

But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. By Albert Camus

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation. By Albert Camus

Living this way, in his own presence, time took on its most extreme dimensions, and each hour seemed to contain a world. By Albert Camus

People, who suffer from sadness and suddenly become happy, betray themselves: they stick to happiness, as if to hug, and strangle it out of jealousy. By Albert Camus

No one realises that some individuals consume herculesque forces only to be normal. By Albert Camus

In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions By Albert Camus

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. By Albert Camus

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces. By Albert Camus

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations. By Albert Camus

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless. By Albert Camus

I would like to be able to breathe - to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. By Albert Camus

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. By Albert Camus

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere. By Albert Camus

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold. By Albert Camus

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. By Albert Camus

Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don't know or they hope. By Albert Camus

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. By Albert Camus

In this flowering of air this fertility of the heavens it seemed as if a mans one duty was to live and be happy. By Albert Camus

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death. By Albert Camus

When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor. By Albert Camus

No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of ... of abstractions. By Albert Camus

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!' By Albert Camus

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live. By Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. By Albert Camus

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. By Albert Camus

Please stop trifling. By Albert Camus

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. By Albert Camus

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. By Albert Camus

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy. By Albert Camus

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness. By Albert Camus

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. By Albert Camus

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. By Albert Camus

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you. By Albert Camus

At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling. By Albert Camus

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. By Albert Camus

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves. By Albert Camus

Oh, it must be an epidemic,' the priest said; and his eyes were smiling behind his glasses. By Albert Camus

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. By Albert Camus

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. By Albert Camus

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. By Albert Camus

As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent. By Albert Camus

I loved them, according to the hallowed expression, which amounts to saying that I never loved any of them. By Albert Camus

He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while. By Albert Camus

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe By Albert Camus

I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. By Albert Camus

Daru felt a sudden wrath against the man, against all men with their rotten spite, their tireless hates, their blood lust. By Albert Camus

I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me. By Albert Camus

No one in this desert, neither he nor his guest, mattered. And yet, outside this desert neither of them, Daru knew, could have really lived. By Albert Camus

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. By Albert Camus

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part. By Albert Camus

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation By Albert Camus

And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death. By Albert Camus

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. By Albert Camus

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. By Albert Camus

The moment when I am no longer more than a writer, I will cease to write. By Albert Camus

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind. By Albert Camus

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. By Albert Camus

What is a rebel? Someone who says no. But saying no does not mean giving up: it also means saying yes, with every gesture. By Albert Camus

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. By Albert Camus

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). By Albert Camus

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given. By Albert Camus

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? By Albert Camus

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears. By Albert Camus

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. By Albert Camus

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. By Albert Camus

How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything? By Albert Camus

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all. By Albert Camus

By definition he [the writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it By Albert Camus

I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say By Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. By Albert Camus

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternityhappiness was human, eternity ordinary. By Albert Camus

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. By Albert Camus

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. By Albert Camus

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. By Albert Camus

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. By Albert Camus

But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand By Albert Camus

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. By Albert Camus

You do not have to unburden your soul for everyone; it will be enough if you do that for those you love. By Albert Camus

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. By Albert Camus

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die. By Albert Camus

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. By Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering By Albert Camus

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. By Albert Camus

When he rebels, a manidentifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarityis metaphysical. By Albert Camus

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. By Albert Camus

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 poor Caligula. By Albert Camus

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! By Albert Camus

There's the risk of being loved ... and that would keep me from being happy. By Albert Camus

It would be the most peaceful to love in silence, but there are consciousness and personality, so we have to speak. And then love becomes hell. By Albert Camus

How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits. By Albert Camus

Even if the mind were not, its laws would be! By Albert Camus

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. By Albert Camus

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it. By Albert Camus

Friendship is not so easy: it's long and hard to win, but when it's there, you can't get rid of it, you have to made do By Albert Camus

There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared. By Albert Camus

Every time it seems to me that I've grasped the deep meaning of the world, it is its simplicity that always overwhelms me. By Albert Camus

When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardour and that illumination. By Albert Camus

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. By Albert Camus

When millions of people are starving, everyone is implicated. By Albert Camus

Am I happy or unhappy? It's not a very important question. By Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. By Albert Camus

And I tried to listen again, because the prosecutor started talking about my soul. By Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. By Albert Camus

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL. By Albert Camus

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger. By Albert Camus

We are not certain, we are never certain. By Albert Camus

I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games. By Albert Camus

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? By Albert Camus

I was very fond of you, but now I'm so, so tired. I'm not happy to go, but one needn't be happy to make another start. By Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. By Albert Camus

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. By Albert Camus

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy. By Albert Camus

I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused. By Albert Camus

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object. By Albert Camus

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable. By Albert Camus

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance. By Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. By Albert Camus

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. By Albert Camus

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him. By Albert Camus

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement. By Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing By Albert Camus

In the middle of Winter I discovered within myself an invincible Summer. By Albert Camus

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. By Albert Camus

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. By Albert Camus

People always think that a suicide is commited for one reason. But it is perfectly possible to commit a suicide for two reasons. By Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack for getting its way. By Albert Camus

This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments - a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason. By Albert Camus

One cannot be a part-time nihilist. By Albert Camus

One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives. By Albert Camus

There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn. By Albert Camus

We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles. By Albert Camus

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. By Albert Camus

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. By Albert Camus

You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit. By Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. By Albert Camus

In any case, the one man paved the way for the deeds of the other, in a sense foreshadowed and even legitimized by them. By Albert Camus

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. By Albert Camus

The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. By Albert Camus

We live with a few familiar ideas. Two or three. We polish and transform them according to the societies and the men we happen to meet. By Albert Camus

It is easier to cut off heads than to have ideas. By Albert Camus

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. By Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time. By Albert Camus

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself. By Albert Camus

Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man. By Albert Camus

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. By Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. By Albert Camus

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal. By Albert Camus

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. By Albert Camus

To grow old is to move from passion to compassion. By Albert Camus

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. By Albert Camus

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help. By Albert Camus

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. By Albert Camus

...everthing is true and nothing is true! By Albert Camus

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth. By Albert Camus

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! By Albert Camus

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. By Albert Camus

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. By Albert Camus

Tell me about yourselves and describe the sun to a miserable wretch who has no roots anywhere and who remains your faithful. By Albert Camus

I people the universe with forms in my own likeness. For I have not yet spoken of the sun. By Albert Camus

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. By Albert Camus

Habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. By Albert Camus

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. By Albert Camus

there are truths but no truth. By Albert Camus

I'm going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are. By Albert Camus

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be. By Albert Camus

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. By Albert Camus

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war. By Albert Camus

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. By Albert Camus

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. By Albert Camus

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide By Albert Camus

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting. By Albert Camus

Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom By Albert Camus

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. By Albert Camus

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be. By Albert Camus

Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect. By Albert Camus

A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them). By Albert Camus

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? By Albert Camus

Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity. By Albert Camus

You know that even very intelligent people glory in being able to empty one bottle more than the next man. By Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. By Albert Camus

For people like me, the face just says that we die alone. By Albert Camus

Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas. By Albert Camus

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

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. By Albert Camus

Maybe Christ died for somebody but not for me. By Albert Camus

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly. By Albert Camus

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. By Albert Camus

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. By Albert Camus

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. By Albert Camus

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. By Albert Camus

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more. By Albert Camus

He broke in and wanted to know how I imagined this other life. So I shouted: 'A life that would remind me of this one By Albert Camus

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself. By Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. By Albert Camus

Essay on tragedy.(1) The silence of Prometheus.(2) The Elizabethans.(3) Moliere.(4) The spirit of revolt. By Albert Camus

It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood that I was guilty. By Albert Camus

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. By Albert Camus

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. By Albert Camus

Everything I know of morality, I learned on the soccer field. By Albert Camus

All who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers. By Albert Camus

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence By Albert Camus

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it By Albert Camus

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born. By Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. By Albert Camus

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day. By Albert Camus

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. By Albert Camus

Mind you, do not think that my affection for you is blind. You have great, very great faults, at least in my eyes. By Albert Camus

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards. By Albert Camus

She had put on a white linen dress and let her hair down. I told her she was beautiful and she laughed with delight. By Albert Camus

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. By Albert Camus

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated. By Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. By Albert Camus

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. By Albert Camus

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them ... they could perceive what they have made of us. By Albert Camus

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture. By Albert Camus

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. By Albert Camus

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him. By Albert Camus

Here is the faithful night, the cool night which I called for amid the noise of lights, drink and the tumult of desire. By Albert Camus

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it. By Albert Camus

There lay the real danger; for the energy they devoted to fighting the disease made them all the more liable to it. By Albert Camus

Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision. By Albert Camus

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently. By Albert Camus

There was a worried little smile on her face. But my heart felt nothing, and I couldn't even return her smile. By Albert Camus

A life, whose purpose is money, is death. By Albert Camus

Therefore there is only one form of freedom for Stirner, "my power," and onlyone truth, "the magnificent egotism of the stars. By Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. By Albert Camus

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? By Albert Camus

He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. By Albert Camus

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. By Albert Camus

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland By Albert Camus

Men like you and me who in the morning patted children on the head would a few hours later become meticulous executioners. By Albert Camus

The world is divine because the world is inconsequential. That is why art alone, by being equally inconsequential, is capable of grasping it. By Albert Camus

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate. By Albert Camus

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. By Albert Camus

The political movements, or ideologies, inspired by Hegel are all united inthe ostensible abandonment of virtue. By Albert Camus

Likewise the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought. By Albert Camus

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy. By Albert Camus

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. By Albert Camus

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. By Albert Camus

People always have exaggerated ideas about unfamiliar things'. - Meursault By Albert Camus

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. By Albert Camus

The struggle, itself, toward the summit suffices to fill the human heart. By Albert Camus

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said. By Albert Camus

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. By Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. By Albert Camus

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. By Albert Camus

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. By Albert Camus

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity. By Albert Camus

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. By Albert Camus

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. By Albert Camus

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth. By Albert Camus

I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. By Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. By Albert Camus

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. By Albert Camus

That inability to understand becomes the existence that illuminates everything. By Albert Camus

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it. By Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. By Albert Camus

It is necessary to fall in love ... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. By Albert Camus

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things. By Albert Camus

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. By Albert Camus

Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so. By Albert Camus

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. By Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. By Albert Camus

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. By Albert Camus

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. By Albert Camus

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress. By Albert Camus

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. By Albert Camus

One grows out of pity when it's useless. By Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. By Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. By Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has to kill one's landlady. By Albert Camus

I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. By Albert Camus

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless. By Albert Camus

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. By Albert Camus

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope. By Albert Camus

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. By Albert Camus

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. By Albert Camus

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. By Albert Camus

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!! By Albert Camus

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. By Albert Camus

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people. By Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. By Albert Camus

The feeling that we are all neglected and lonely but not so lonely that "others" do not see us in trouble, saves us from the worst suffering. By Albert Camus

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. By Albert Camus

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. By Albert Camus

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. By Albert Camus

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. By Albert Camus

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. By Albert Camus

Well, Mr. Antichrist, that's all for the present! By Albert Camus

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. By Albert Camus

So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. By Albert Camus

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. By Albert Camus

What does eternity matter to me? To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands - that is the supreme separation! By Albert Camus

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice. By Albert Camus

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness. By Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. By Albert Camus

There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life. By Albert Camus

That's why I like you so much. Your heart isn't dead. By Albert Camus

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. By Albert Camus

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. By Albert Camus

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation. By Albert Camus

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur. By Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. By Albert Camus

Don't walk in front of me ... I may not followDon't walk behind me ... I may not leadWalk beside me ... just be my friend By Albert Camus

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence. By Albert Camus

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. By Albert Camus

We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else. By Albert Camus

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3 By Albert Camus

My soul's a burden to me, I've had enough of it. I'm eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don't belong here. By Albert Camus

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. By Albert Camus

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. By Albert Camus

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe. By Albert Camus

The most destitute men often end up by accepting illusion. By Albert Camus

I know. I'm sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt. By Albert Camus

...luck is not to be coerced. By Albert Camus

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. By Albert Camus

Indeed, the one thing these prophecies had in common was that, ultimately, all were reassuring. Unfortunately, though, the plague was not. By Albert Camus

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. By Albert Camus

But everyone knows that life isn't really worth living. By Albert Camus

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. By Albert Camus

the ridiculous impression of being "one of the family. By Albert Camus

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin. By Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. By Albert Camus

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. By Albert Camus

Live to the point of tears. By Albert Camus

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I. By Albert Camus

Living is keeping the absurd alive. By Albert Camus

After that, everything seemed to happen so fast, so deliberately, so naturally that I don't remember any of it anymore. By Albert Camus

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing. By Albert Camus

How hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for! By Albert Camus

The habit of despair is worse than despair itself. By Albert Camus

I was feeling very comfortable; the coffee had warmed me up, and through the open door came scents of flowers and breaths of cool night air. By Albert Camus

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. By Albert Camus

There is something divine in mindless beauty. By Albert Camus

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves. By Albert Camus

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. By Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. By Albert Camus

For lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it. By Albert Camus

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

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. By Albert Camus

That's all for today, Monsieur Antichrist. By Albert Camus

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. By Albert Camus

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. By Albert Camus

Poverty is a fortress without drawbridges. By Albert Camus

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. By Albert Camus

There is scarcely any passion without struggle. By Albert Camus

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world. By Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. By Albert Camus

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. By Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. By Albert Camus

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague") By Albert Camus

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us. By Albert Camus

Start by looking for what is valid in every human being. By Albert Camus

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions. By Albert Camus

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. By Albert Camus

You only demand clarity because you're too comfortable within your vagueness By Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous. By Albert Camus

He wanted to diminish the surface he offered the world, to sleep until everything was consumed. By Albert Camus

Doubts are the innermost corner of our souls. One must not talk about his doubts, whatever they may be. By Albert Camus

Love is injustice, but justice doesn't suffice. By Albert Camus

It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair. By Albert Camus

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. By Albert Camus

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. By Albert Camus

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent. By Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. By Albert Camus

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. By Albert Camus

Knowing we all gonna die makes life a joke By Albert Camus

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind. By Albert Camus

Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering. By Albert Camus

I rebel; therefore I exist. By Albert Camus

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure. By Albert Camus

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction. By Albert Camus

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me. By Albert Camus

What counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity. By Albert Camus

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

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared. By Albert Camus

I always hope, in fact, that my interlocutor will be a policeman and that he will arrest me for the theft of 'The Just Judges'". By Albert Camus

Existence is illusory and it is eternal. By Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born By Albert Camus

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. By Albert Camus

The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand. By Albert Camus

Freedom is the right to never have to lie. By Albert Camus

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life. By Albert Camus

After awhile you could get used to anything. By Albert Camus

A writer has some hope even if he is not appreciated. He assumes that his works will bear witness to what he was. By Albert Camus

The play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered. By Albert Camus

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion. By Albert Camus

When a conscious being appeared, the world went blank. By Albert Camus

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. By Albert Camus

I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea. By Albert Camus

History is distinguishedfrom nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will. By Albert Camus

It may be shameful to be happy by oneself. By Albert Camus

The young don't know that experience is a defeat and that we must lose everything in order to win a little knowledge. By Albert Camus

Art and revolt will die only with the last man. By Albert Camus

If a man can't help having slaves, isn't it better for him to call them free men? By Albert Camus

Then, in the dark hour before dawn, sirens blared. They were announcing departures for a world that now and forever meant nothing to me. By Albert Camus

It is immoral not to tell. By Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.[The Minotaur] By Albert Camus

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it. By Albert Camus

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. By Albert Camus

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all. By Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing. By Albert Camus

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent. By Albert Camus

She turned towards me. Her hair had fallen over her eyes and she was laughing. By Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? By Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. By Albert Camus

A man defineshimself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses. By Albert Camus

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. By Albert Camus

To-day the truth is a command. By Albert Camus

Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves. By Albert Camus

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. By Albert Camus

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand. By Albert Camus

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. By Albert Camus

a small room that smelled of darkness. By Albert Camus

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 normal. By Albert Camus

And then he knew that war is no good, because vanquishing a man is as bitter as being vanquished. By Albert Camus

Art does not tolerate reason. By Albert Camus

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. By Albert Camus

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. By Albert Camus

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard. By Albert Camus

The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace - the world and the heart know nothing about it. By Albert Camus

They deify what crushes them and find reason to hope in what impoverishes them. By Albert Camus

Happiness too is inevitable. By Albert Camus

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live. By Albert Camus

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. By Albert Camus

If it were sufficent to love, things would be too easy. By Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. By Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. By Albert Camus

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future. By Albert Camus

Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. By Albert Camus

He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. By Albert Camus

There are more things to admire in men then to despise. By Albert Camus

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. By Albert Camus

And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fire - and it would come to absolutely the same thing. By Albert Camus

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person. By Albert Camus

But crushing truths perish from being acknowledged. By Albert Camus

The truth, as the light, makes blind. By Albert Camus

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. By Albert Camus

Death will be my supreme protest against a world of tears and blood. By Albert Camus

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. By Albert Camus

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. By Albert Camus

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents By Albert Camus

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders. By Albert Camus

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. By Albert Camus

Murder is terribly exhausting. By Albert Camus

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. By Albert Camus

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us. By Albert Camus

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. By Albert Camus

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. By Albert Camus

[E]verything contributes to spreading confusion. By Albert Camus

Am fit. Always thinking of you. Love. By Albert Camus

Find your happiness in yourself. By Albert Camus

Life should be lived to the point of tears By Albert Camus

A pure love is a dead love. By Albert Camus

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul By Albert Camus

[A writer] cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it. By Albert Camus

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion. By Albert Camus

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule. By Albert Camus

The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much. By Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. By Albert Camus

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. By Albert Camus

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth By Albert Camus

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two. By Albert Camus

vociferating optimism. By Albert Camus

My moral code is no more or less than my likes and dislikes. By Albert Camus

I've seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart. By Albert Camus

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. By Albert Camus

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. By Albert Camus

The act of love ... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. By Albert Camus

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics. By Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. By Albert Camus

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. By Albert Camus

There is no love of life without despair of life. By Albert Camus

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace. By Albert Camus

Poverty is a state whose feature is generosity. By Albert Camus

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world. By Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. By Albert Camus

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. By Albert Camus