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End Quotes by Albert Camus
- In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst…
- 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:…
- 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 spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
- The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
- 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…
- There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each…
- The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
- Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
- In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our…
- It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
- But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
- To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
- For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life…
- 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…
- A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the…
- My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that…
- 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…
- The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken…
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