Quotes
Quotes - Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
