Albert Camus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
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i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
