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From Quotes by Albert Camus
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
- Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the…
- The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.…
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society…
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That…
- Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.…
- Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the…
- The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,…
- Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and…
- Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
- Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
- Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the…
- Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean…
- I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need…
- Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down…
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
- May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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