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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine — Albert Camus

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

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — 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

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. — Albert Camus

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. — Albert Camus

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. — Albert Camus

The hardest thing is to go on living and not to believe in one's own lies. — Albert Camus

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. — Albert Camus

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

Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything. — 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

My soul's a burden to me, I've had enough of it. I'm eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don't belong here. — Albert Camus

It would be better to try to awake the reader's critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness. — Albert Camus

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. — Albert Camus

Well, Mr. Antichrist, that's all for the present! — Albert Camus

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

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. — Albert Camus

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

There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal. — Albert Camus

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

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has to kill one's landlady. — Albert Camus

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth — Albert Camus

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all. — Albert Camus

Being is good, but getting rich is better ... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula. — Albert Camus

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. — Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. — Albert Camus

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

Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune. — Albert Camus

Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die. — Albert Camus

There's something dripping in my head.
(Pause.)
A heart, a heart in my head. — Albert Camus

I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me. — Albert Camus

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness. — Albert Camus

What does eternity matter to me? To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands - that is the supreme separation! — Albert Camus

One grows out of pity when it's useless. — Albert Camus

There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life. — Albert Camus

Friendship is not so easy: it's long and hard to win, but when it's there, you can't get rid of it, you have to made do — Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck. — Albert Camus

In a man's attachment to life there is something stronger than all the ills in the world. — Albert Camus

One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. — Albert Camus

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves. — Albert Camus

It's better to bet on this life than on the next. — Albert Camus

There's the risk of being loved ... and that would keep me from being happy. — Albert Camus

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it. — Albert Camus

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared. — Albert Camus

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

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate — Albert Camus

He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while. — Albert Camus

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus

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

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all. — Albert Camus

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

The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman. — Albert Camus

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

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus

That's all for today, Monsieur Antichrist. — Albert Camus

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. — Albert Camus

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

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation. — Albert Camus

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

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. — Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

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

there are truths but no truth. — 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

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. — Albert Camus

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

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things. — Albert Camus

That's why I like you so much. Your heart isn't dead. — Albert Camus

So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. — Albert Camus

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice. — Albert Camus

I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. — Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. — 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 when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. — Albert Camus

Am I happy or unhappy? It's not a very important question. — Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious small
idea, once he turns his back on love. And
that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love. — Albert Camus

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right. — Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. — Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. — Albert Camus

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

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus