Albert Camus Quotes
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
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You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
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Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
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Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.
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The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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This is the century of fear.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
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The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.