Albert Camus Quotes
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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.
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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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.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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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.
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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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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.