Albert Camus
View AuthorTrue generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present.
Albert Camus
View AuthorThere is nothing more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
View AuthorIn the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
View AuthorNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy just to be normal.
Albert Camus
View AuthorThe need to be right is the sign of a vulgar spirit.
Albert Camus
View AuthorEl conquistador no busca la unidad, sino la totalidad, lo que significa el aplastamiento de las diferencias
Albert Camus
View AuthorWe thought that happiness is the greatest of conquests, the one we achieve against the destiny imposed on us. Not even in defeat did that longing abandon us.
Albert Camus
View AuthorThere is one thing that is always desired and is sometimes obtained: human tenderness.
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.