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Certain Quotes by Albert Camus
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these…
- The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
- 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…
- To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
- Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to…
- We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of…
- What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,…
- The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
- He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even…
- The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,…
- We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us…
- It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they…
- There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was…
- Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
- There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage…
- In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their…
- At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
- Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny…
More Certain Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say… — Luis Bunuel
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight -… — Carl von Clausewitz