Albert Camus Quotes
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There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.
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Having money is a way of being free of money.
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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Men die and they are not happy.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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Knowing what Christ knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.