Albert Camus Quotes
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
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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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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.