Albert Camus Quotes
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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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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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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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Liberty is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
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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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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
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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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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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Those who write clearly have readers.
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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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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
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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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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.