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One Quotes by Albert Camus
- I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
- The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
- It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
- One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
- To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
- No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
- The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
- 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…
- 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 desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person…
- To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two…
- 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…
- In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all.…
- Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
- 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…
- As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
- The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one…
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