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Thought Quotes by Albert Camus
- You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the…
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own…
- Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and…
- 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…
- Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
- Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
- I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
- All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its…
- 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…
- 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…
- At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but…
- Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I…
- A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition…
- In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
- It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
- Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
- When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but…
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