Albert Camus Quotes
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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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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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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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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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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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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There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
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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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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
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Paris is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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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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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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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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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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People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
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He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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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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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.