Albert Camus Quotes
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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
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... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
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Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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It is immoral not to tell.
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We're going forward, but nothing changes.
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This is the century of fear.
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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
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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.
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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.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
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The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.