Albert Camus Quotes
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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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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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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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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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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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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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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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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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.