Albert Camus Quotes
-
Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
-
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
-
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
-
Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
-
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
-
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
-
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
-
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
-
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
-
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
-
Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
-
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.
-
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
-
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
-
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.
-
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
-
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
-
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.
-
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
-
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
-
Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1
-
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
-
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul.