Albert Camus Quotes
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
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Without freedom there is no art.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
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The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.