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Necessary Quotes by Albert Camus
- In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
- 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…
- To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the…
- People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not…
- 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…
- One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
- 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…
- God is not necessary to createculpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
More Necessary Quotes
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we… — Richard Bach
- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? — James M. Barrie
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire