13 Quotes by Camus Albert

Every act of creation, by its mere existence, denies the world of master and slave. The appallng society of tyrants in which we survive will find its death and transfiguration only on the level of creation.

This figure, which gave a clear meaning to the daily spectacle that everyone in town had in front of their eyes, disconcerted them even more. Up to then people had merely complaine about a rather disgusting accident. Now they saw that there was something threatening in this phenomenon, the extent and origin of which was not yet clear to them.

This figure, which gave a clear meaning to the daily spectacle that everyone in town had in front of their eyes, disconcerted them even more. Up to then people had merely complained about a rather disgusting accident. Now they saw that there was something threatening in this phenomenon, the extent and origin of which was not yet clear to them.

To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it. ...That discipline that the mind imposes on itself, that will conjured up out of nothing, that face-to-face struggle have something exceptional about them. ...I understand then why the doctrines that explain everything to me also debilitate me at the same time. They relieve me of the weight of my own life, and yet I must carry it alone.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

I’ve a very different idea of love. And until my dying I refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture” The Plague

... but he could not believe that the plague might really get a hold of a town where you could still find humble civil servants who devoted their free moments to honourable obsessions. More exactly, he could not imagine how such obsessions fitted into the context of the plague, and so concluded that, in practical terms, the plague had no future among the people of our town.

Admittedly the number of dead from one day to the next was not rising. But it seemed that the plague had settled comfortably into its peak and was carrying out its daily murders with the precision and regularity of a good civil servant.

Uno se forma siempre ideas exageradas de lo que no conoce.