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Act Quotes by Albert Camus
- The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
- The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
- To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives…
- In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
- If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
- If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- The act of love is a confession.
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