Albert Camus
Quotations
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” -Albert Camus
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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.” -Albert Camus
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” -Albert Camus
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“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.” -Albert Camus
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“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 these days is a collection of books.” -Albert Camus
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“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.” -Albert Camus
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” -Albert Camus
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“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 there isn’t and die to find out there is.” -Albert Camus
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“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” -Albert Camus
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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” -Albert Camus
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“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.” -Albert Camus
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.” -Albert Camus
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.” -Albert Camus
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“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” -Albert Camus
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” -Albert Camus
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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.” -Albert Camus
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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.” -Albert Camus
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“It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.” -Albert Camus
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.” -Albert Camus
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.” -Albert Camus
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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.” -Albert Camus
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“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.” -Albert Camus
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“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 meaning of life.” -Albert Camus
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.” -Albert Camus
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“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.” -Albert Camus
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“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.” -Albert Camus
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“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.” -Albert Camus
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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” -Albert Camus
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” -Albert Camus
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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.” -Albert Camus
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” -Albert Camus
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” -Albert Camus
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“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.” -Albert Camus
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“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.” -Albert Camus
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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.” -Albert Camus
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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” -Albert Camus
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“Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.” -Albert Camus
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.” -Albert Camus
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“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 these days is a collection of books.” -Albert Camus
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“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 whole of time.” -Albert Camus
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.” -Albert Camus
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. – Albert Camus
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus
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