Albert Camus Quotes
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The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
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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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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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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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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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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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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.