Albert Camus Quotes
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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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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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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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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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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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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
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Some are created to love, while the others – to live.
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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.
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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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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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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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Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
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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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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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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 danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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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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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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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.