It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Author: Albert Camus
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of 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.
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.
Man is an idea and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Man is an idea and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
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.
I know of only one duty and that is to love.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our means.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our means.
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.
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.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly we should die.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly we should die.
Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless life stifles and dies.
Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless life stifles and dies.