Camus Quotes One

- "Doubtless they suspected me of living fully, given up completely to hapiness; and that cannot be forgiven." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "How many crimes commited merely because their authrs could not endure being wrong!." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "I'll tell you a big secret, mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discrete: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "My sensuality ... was so real that even for a ten-minute adventure I'd have disowned father and mother ... I had principles, to be sure, such as that the wife of a friend is sacred. But I simply ceased quite sincerely, a few days before, to feel any friendship for the husband." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "Martyrs ... is to choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood-never!" (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "Property, gentelmen, is murder!" (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "How many crimes commited merely because their authrs could not endure being wrong!." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- "What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others." (from "The Fall", 1956)

- ""Every wall is a door," Emerson correctly said. Let us not look for the door and the way out, anywhere but in the wall against which we are living. Instead, let us seek respite where it is - in the very thick of the battle" (from "Create Dangerously", 1957)