Albert Camus Quotes
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
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Am well. Thinking of you always. Love.
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When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
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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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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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
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If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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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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History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
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Some are created to love, while the others – to live.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.