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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
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
It would be better to try to awake the reader's critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.
— Albert Camus
Well, Mr. Antichrist, that's all for the present!
— Albert Camus
We are not certain, we are never certain.
— Albert Camus
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
— 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
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
— 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
I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me.
— 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
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
It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
— 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
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
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
— Albert Camus
