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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! — Albert Camus

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance. — Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. — Albert Camus

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. — Albert Camus

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody
knows. People will stand much more from him. — Albert Camus

And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death. — Albert Camus

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement. — Albert Camus

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. — Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing — Albert Camus

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all. — Albert Camus

In the middle of Winter I discovered within myself an invincible Summer. — Albert Camus

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus

No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of ... of abstractions. — Albert Camus

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. — Albert Camus

People always think that a suicide is commited for one reason. But it is perfectly possible to commit a suicide for two reasons. — Albert Camus

Together again, Marie and I swam out a ways, and we felt a closeness as we moved in unison and were happy. — Albert Camus

We are not certain, we are never certain. — Albert Camus

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. — Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack for getting its way. — Albert Camus

This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments - a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason. — Albert Camus

One cannot be a part-time nihilist. — Albert Camus

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble. — Albert Camus

Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don't know or they hope. — Albert Camus

One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives. — Albert Camus

There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Albert Camus

We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles. — Albert Camus

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. — Albert Camus

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus

You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit. — Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe — Albert Camus

In any case, the one man paved the way for the deeds of the other, in a sense foreshadowed and even legitimized by them. — Albert Camus

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. — Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. — Albert Camus

The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus

We live with a few familiar ideas. Two or three. We polish and transform them according to the societies and the men we happen to meet. — Albert Camus

It is easier to cut off heads than to have ideas. — Albert Camus

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. — Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time. — Albert Camus

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself. — Albert Camus

Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man. — Albert Camus

They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine — Albert Camus

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. — Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. — Albert Camus

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness. — Albert Camus

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. — Albert Camus

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. — Albert Camus

To grow old is to move from passion to compassion. — Albert Camus

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help. — Albert Camus

When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor. — Albert Camus

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. — Albert Camus

...everthing is true and nothing is true! — Albert Camus

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth. — Albert Camus

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. — Albert Camus

Tell me about yourselves and describe the sun to a miserable wretch who has no roots anywhere and who remains your faithful. — Albert Camus

I people the universe with forms in my own likeness. For I have not yet spoken of the sun. — Albert Camus

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves. — Albert Camus

Habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. — Albert Camus

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. — Albert Camus

there are truths but no truth. — Albert Camus

I'm going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are. — Albert Camus

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be. — Albert Camus

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. — Albert Camus

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war. — Albert Camus

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. — Albert Camus

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. — Albert Camus

Even if the mind were not, its laws would be! — Albert Camus

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. — Albert Camus

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide — Albert Camus

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. — Albert Camus

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting. — Albert Camus

Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom — Albert Camus

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. — Albert Camus

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations. — Albert Camus

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. — Albert Camus

How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits. — Albert Camus

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object. — Albert Camus

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions — Albert Camus

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless. — Albert Camus

But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand — Albert Camus

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be. — Albert Camus

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? — Albert Camus

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given. — Albert Camus

Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect. — Albert Camus

A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them). — Albert Camus

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? — Albert Camus

As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent. — Albert Camus

Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity. — Albert Camus

You know that even very intelligent people glory in being able to empty one bottle more than the next man. — Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. — Albert Camus

For people like me, the face just says that we die alone. — Albert Camus

Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas. — Albert Camus