Albert Camus Quotes
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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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.
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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 have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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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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Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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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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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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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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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
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How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
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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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What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
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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.