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| A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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| Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Integrity has no need of rules. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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| There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| You can't create experience. You must undergo it. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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| Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very centre of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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| Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| 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 | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The innocent is the person who explains nothing. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgement. It takes place every day. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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