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Contrary Quotes by Albert Camus
- Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
- To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
- 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…
- 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…
- Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
- 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…
- And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced…
- It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on…
- Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone,…
- We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and… — Conrad Black
- When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit… — Andrea Bocelli
- The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain