"For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in ...
To create is to live twice.
More Albert Camus quotes
"In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.
"And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from th...
"We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer di...
"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 ...
"You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for you to serve the politics of reality w...
"I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and which is calmly and surely preparing out o...
"…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave the world a h...
"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your t...
"You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be def...
"It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing th...
"They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of...
"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significan...
"Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertain...
"It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being...