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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
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
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
— 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
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
— 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
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
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
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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
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
there are truths but no truth.
— Albert Camus
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
— 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
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
How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits.
— Albert Camus
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
— 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
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
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
