Quotations From ALBERT CAMUS

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• 151.

  In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Caligula in Caligula, act 4, sc. 11, Pléiade (1962).
  
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• 152.

  I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. The narrator, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, in The Fall (1956).
  
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• 153.

  Are you involved in politics now? Leave that to the writers and to the ugly girls.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Rateau to his friend Jonas, in Exile and the Kingdom, "Jonas or The Artist at Work," p. 121, Gallimard (1957).
  
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• 154.

  It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Rateau to his friend Jonas, in Exile and the Kingdom, "Jonas, or The Artist at Work," p. 120, Gallimard (1957).
• 155.

  True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. (repr. 1957). The narrator (Jean-Baptiste Clamence), in The Fall, p. 77 (1956).
• 156.

  Men die and they are not happy.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Caligula in Caligula, act 1, sc. 4, Pléiade (1962).
  
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• 157.

  I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

  Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. The narrator (Jean-Baptiste Clamence), in The Fall (1956).
  
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