You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
—Albert Camus
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
—Albert Camus
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
—Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
—Albert Camus
Toute idée fausse finit dans le sang, mais il s’agit toujours du sang des autres. C’est ce qui explique que certains de nos philosophes se sentent à l’aise pour dire n’importe quoi. Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else’s blood. That is why some of our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.
—Albert Camus
One does not decide the truth of a thought according to whether it is right-wing or left-wing.
—Albert Camus
Il y a toujours une philosophie pour le manque de courage. There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
—Albert Camus
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
—Albert Camus
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
—Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
—Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
—Albert Camus
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
—Albert Camus
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
—Albert Camus
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
—Albert Camus
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
—Albert Camus
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
—Albert Camus