Albert Camus Quotes
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
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Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
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Am well. Thinking of you always. Love.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
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The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
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Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
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History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.