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Lying Quotes by Albert Camus
- The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
- Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the…
- A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to…
- After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation,…
- For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I…
- The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
- The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to…
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
- Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
- I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to…
- Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded…
- 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…
- Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
- Liberty is the right not to lie.
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very…
- What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what…
- I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
More Lying Quotes
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman