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Time Quotes by Albert Camus
- 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…
- To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
- Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
- Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
- In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a…
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
- One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
- This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
- Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal†some time and give it freely and…
- Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
- 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…
- Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with…
- For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed…
- It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled…
- ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
- Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded…
- I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
- …. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be…
- 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…
- There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade…
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