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Firsts Quotes by Albert Camus
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in…
- The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
- We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
- We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
- 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…
- I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
- In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a…
- I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of…
- For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed…
- L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
- It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled…
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the…
- ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence…
- I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign…
- 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…
- Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who…
- In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
- So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
- I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all…
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