Albert Camus Quotes
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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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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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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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Without freedom there is no art.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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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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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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We have art in order not to die of life.
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The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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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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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.