Albert Camus
View AuthorEven, in some cases, to continue, simply to continue, becomes superhuman.
Albert Camus
View AuthorBrutal physical desire is easy. But desire at the same time as tenderness takes time. It is necessary to traverse the entire region of love before finding the flame of desire.
Albert Camus
View AuthorThe one who kills or tortures only knows a shadow in their victory: they cannot feel innocent. Therefore, they need to create guilt in the victim.
Albert Camus
View AuthorI thought that this world without love is a dead world, and that there comes a moment when one grows tired of the prison, work, and courage, and demands nothing more than the face of a being and the spell of tenderness in the heart.
Albert Camus
View AuthorBecause friendship is the science of free men. And there is no freedom without intelligence and mutual understanding.
Albert Camus
View AuthorHe was aware of how sterile a life without illusions is. There is no peace without hope.
Albert Camus
View AuthorThe slave begins by demanding justice and ends up desiring royalty.
Albert Camus
View AuthorWe always have an exaggerated idea of what we do not know.
Albert Camus
View AuthorWho could claim that an eternity of happiness can compensate for an instant of human pain?
Candide
View AuthorWhen the tyrant can be called a tyrant, humor is no longer necessary.
Candide
View AuthorIf virtue were recognized as a mystery, virtue would be easier.
Candide
View AuthorThe men tend to present their desires to those whom they consider to be miraculously superior to them, through one avenue of faith or another.