Albert Camus Quotes
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.
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.