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Common Quotes by Albert Camus
- In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all.…
- A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
- More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything…
- We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to…
- People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not…
- …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the…
- But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us…
- Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
- But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
- 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…
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- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius