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Out Quotes by Albert Camus
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't…
- Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over…
- The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
- Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible,…
- He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to…
- What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the…
- It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
- I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of…
- Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the…
- When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't…
- All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too…
- I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that…
- Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those…
- Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the…
- What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give…
- Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But…
- He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and…
- For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life…
- Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and…
- Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the…
- What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in…
- On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
- It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on…
- Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new…
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if…
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