Albert Camus Quotes
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
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You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us.
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Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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I rebel - therefore we exist.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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This is the century of fear.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
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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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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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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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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!!
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.