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Oneself Quotes by Albert Camus
- To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
- To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
- As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
- To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what…
- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
- There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing…
- Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
- Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel…
- I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with…
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