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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
Albert Camus
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The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art.
Albert Camus -
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus -
Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
Albert Camus -
My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
Albert Camus -
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Albert Camus -
I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
Albert Camus
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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
Albert Camus -
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
Albert Camus -
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus -
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Albert Camus -
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
Albert Camus -
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
Albert Camus