Albert Camus ( 10 of 63 )
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic read more
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
You know what 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.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything read more
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite read more
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person
