Albert Camus Quotes
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A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
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We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.
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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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I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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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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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
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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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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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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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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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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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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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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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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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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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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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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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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.