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True Quotes by Albert Camus
- After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of…
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That…
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the…
- The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
- The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every…
- There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each…
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
- The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
- Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
- All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not…
- Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the…
- True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers…
- On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
- What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
- What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
- When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can…
- A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
- Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or…
- Everything is true, and nothing is true!
- There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
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