Albert Camus Quotes

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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Albert Camus
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Philosopher
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07 November, 1913
DeathDate
04 January, 1960
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