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Doe Quotes by Albert Camus
- What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
- Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all…
- Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
- As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
- Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
- The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to…
- If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage…
- Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be…
- If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
- Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
- 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…
- Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But…
- The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it…
- What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in…
- The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov…
- But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
- A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
- It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep…
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