Albert Camus Quotes
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.
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You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
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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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Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
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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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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
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He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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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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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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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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I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
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The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
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...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.