Quote

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

Albert Camus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
Author
Essayist
French Resistance Fighter
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Drean
Camus
Well
Peace
Bed
Going
Woman
Debt
Never
Felt
Gratitude
Contracted
Left
Sex
Kinder
Others
Toward
Extended
Another
Deep
Occasionally
Wells
Emotion
Affairs
Come
Freedom
Affair

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Albert Camus
Image
I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
Albert Camus
Image
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.
Albert Camus
Image
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
Albert Camus
Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus
Image
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
Albert Camus
Image
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
Albert Camus
Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
Albert Camus
Image
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
Albert Camus
Image
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.
Albert Camus
Image
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
Albert Camus
Image
O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Image
We are all special cases.
Albert Camus
Image
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
Image
What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?
Albert Camus
Image
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
Albert Camus
Image
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
Albert Camus
Image
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
Albert Camus
Image
My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
Albert Camus
Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus