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 More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. Albert Camus beautiful inspirational life Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes. Albert Camus men two mean Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus time beauty love There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman. Albert Camus men war ideas To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living. Albert Camus matter life-is men A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted. Albert Camus be-who-you-are dignity jobs It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.' Albert Camus unity principles world A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. Albert Camus men But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination. Albert Camus imagination men war To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes. Albert Camus men mean art Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Albert Camus mediocrity mediocre retirement To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck. Albert Camus luck energy men Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus stupidity stupid way Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. Albert Camus charming-smile asking inspirational At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. Albert Camus beauty lying art I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Albert Camus existentialism life world Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things. Albert Camus simple people If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us. Albert Camus happiness-and-love perceive made The act of love is a confession. Albert Camus acts-of-love confession love-is I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. Albert Camus wells felt mean
