Albert Camus Quotes
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.
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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.
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Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
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There is only one class of men, the privileged class.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.
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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
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There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn. If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning.
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I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.