Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal... view
By: Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object... view
By: Albert Camus
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason... view
By: Albert Camus
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity... view
By: Albert Camus
To know oneself, one should assert oneself... view
By: Albert Camus
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well... view
By: Albert Camus
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything... view
By: Albert Camus
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others... view
By: Albert Camus
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without... view
By: Albert Camus
We are all special cases... view
By: Albert Camus
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion... view
By: Albert Camus
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears... view
By: Albert Camus
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely... view
By: Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death... view
By: Albert Camus
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never... view
By: Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions... view
By: Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is... view
By: Albert Camus
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love... view
By: Albert Camus
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady... view
By: Albert Camus
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it... view
By: Albert Camus
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money... view
By: Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money... view
By: Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them... view
By: Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life... view
By: Albert Camus
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question... view
By: Albert Camus
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade... view
By: Albert Camus
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it... view
By: Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies... view
By: Albert Camus
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil... view
By: Albert Camus
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future... view
By: Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage... view
By: Albert Camus
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians... view
By: Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no... view
By: Albert Camus
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves... view
By: Albert Camus
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible... view
By: Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are... view
By: Albert Camus
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead... view
By: Albert Camus
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die... view
By: Albert Camus
We call first truths those we discover after all the others... view
By: Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art.. view
By: Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means... view
By: Albert Camus
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny... view
By: Albert Camus
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