3 December 2020 Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
