In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus The society based on production is only productive, not creative. Albert Camus creativityideasknowledge The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself. Albert Camus philosophicaleverydayimportant An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. Albert Camus life-changingphilosophymean A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. Albert Camus usedthreelying Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself. Albert Camus experience-yourselfwallwriting If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. Albert Camus wanthappenslife There is scarcely any passion without struggle. Albert Camus existentialismpassionstruggle Life should be lived to the point of tears Albert Camus tearsshould When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus summerhappinesslife The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus purposewritingcivilization There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus creatingordermean Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus innocencenostalgiaessence The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus wisdomwiselife But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't. Albert Camus should-haveyearsthinking That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3 Albert Camus sacrificelovegiving Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. Albert Camus atheismtruthlife It's better to bet on this life than on the next. Albert Camus this-lifenext Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Albert Camus no-hopeincumbentslife To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate Albert Camus fateshapesgiving One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus flakesimaginestruggle
