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Been Quotes by Albert Camus
- The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
- I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts…
- Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so…
- For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
- The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every…
- In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a…
- The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
- For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed…
- It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled…
- I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
- I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well…
- Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the…
- My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
- I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I…
- He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and…
- Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
- I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four…
- But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on…
- But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But…
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