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Principles Quotes by Albert Camus
- To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
- There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
- No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance.…
- 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…
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