Albert Camus Quotes
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Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
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I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
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The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
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Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.
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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
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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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Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
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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.
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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Art does not tolerate reason.