Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus We all have a weakness for beauty. Albert Camus weakness There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. Albert Camus good-man goodness men When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak. Albert Camus abuse speaks-out silence Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. Albert Camus happiness-and-love refuse principles Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. Albert Camus silence men needs No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Albert Camus crowds suffering people There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. Albert Camus melancholy ...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself. Albert Camus despair habit life For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves. Albert Camus breaking-down mask kind I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere. Albert Camus elsewhere dream people The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another. Albert Camus ignorant knowledgeable-person may People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is. Albert Camus love people thinking I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this? Albert Camus stupid doe men But above all, in order to be, never try to seem. Albert Camus seems trying order I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. Albert Camus giving people ideas Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing. Albert Camus family-first poverty firsts For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus humor success life A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus simple work art Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it. Albert Camus turning-your-back ifs life-is It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it. Albert Camus homeland well-known facts
