# Quote — Albert Camus, The Rebel

> Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.

- Author: [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md)
- Book: [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md)
- Page: 313
- Original (fr): La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Rebel_(1951)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/real-generosity-toward

## More from this book

> In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/in-the-end.md)

> With rebellion, awareness is born.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/with-rebellion-awareness.md)

> When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/when-the-throne.md)

Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md)