Albert Camus Quotes
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We all have a weakness for beauty.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
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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.
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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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.
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.
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A loveless world is a dead world.
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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.