Albert Camus Quotes
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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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.
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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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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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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
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Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
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Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.