Albert Camus Quotes
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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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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 the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.
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Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
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Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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You know, women do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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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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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 have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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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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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
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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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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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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.