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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Albert Camus
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
Albert Camus -
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
Albert Camus -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus -
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus -
My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
Albert Camus -
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
Albert Camus
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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.
Albert Camus -
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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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
Albert Camus -
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
Albert Camus -
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
Albert Camus -
Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
Albert Camus