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Action Quotes by Albert Camus
- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
- The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one…
- All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd…
- Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one…
- Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to…
- When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them…
- The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he…
- By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one…
- The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken…
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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