Albert Camus Quotes
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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All I know of morality I learned from football.
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Knowing what Christ knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
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I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
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Am well. Thinking of you always. Love.
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I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing and I had done another. And so?
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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
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Liberty is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.