Albert Camus Quotes - Page 6

To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves that their existence is not absurd.

They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

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

He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Don't walk in front of me I may not follow:Don't behind me I may not lead:Just walk beside me a be my friend.

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

Having money is a way of being free of money

On veut gagner de l'argent pour vivre heureux et tout l'effort et le meilleur d'une vie se concentrent pour le gain de cet argent. le bonheur est oublié, le moyen pris pour la fin.

He was one
of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good
feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a
capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to.

في بدء توقيفي كانت لدي أفكار رجل حر من ذلك أن الرغبة كانت تأخذني في أكون على شاطئ ...وبعد ذلك %

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.