Albert Camus Quotes
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You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
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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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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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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it.
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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
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The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.
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But 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 schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four.