Quotes by Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.