There is no shame in preferring happiness. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. Albert Camus imagination people art Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Albert Camus psychology logic forever The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . Albert Camus rebellion form order Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing. Albert Camus dream love country A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus confession art-is art It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Albert Camus existentialism despair falling-in-love Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. Albert Camus vanity love-is two Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss Albert Camus kissing fire trying This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world. Albert Camus moon world needs There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Albert Camus philosophical suicide philosophy You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself. Albert Camus waiting mistake men One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood. Albert Camus guilt years thinking …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency. Albert Camus fighting common-decency mean Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. Albert Camus love-life motivational inspirational Art and revolt will die only with the last man. Albert Camus lasts men art I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. Albert Camus deeds men life What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way. Albert Camus crush desire believe In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly. Albert Camus serious speak facts We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed. Albert Camus hungry heal evil We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges. Albert Camus perfect philosophy children
