Albert Camus Quotes
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.
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In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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No ends, simply means.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
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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.
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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
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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.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
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Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
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Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.