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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.


Albert Camus

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KELLY JONES Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.
ALBERT CAMUS Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long...
ALBERT CAMUS The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying t...
ALBERT CAMUS Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, th...
ALBERT CAMUS I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to ...
ALBERT CAMUS Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interest...
JOHN LEONARD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
HENRY ROLLINS Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing fo...
ALBERT DIETRICH The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
PLATO Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
ALBERT CAMUS Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUS One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang ...
ALBERT CAMUS With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wante...
TIM O'BRIEN Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
Tom Robbi...
TOM ROBBINS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
PLATO The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
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ALBERT CAMUS We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
ALBERT CAMUS It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. I...
ALBERT CAMUS ترجیح میدهم طوری زندگی کنم که گویی خدا هست و وقتی مُردم ...
ALBERT CAMUS Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Those who are no longer involved in terrorism are welcome to join the peace process and take part in...
KARIM RAHIMI The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.
LEO X. ROBERTSON Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause ...
DAVID SIMON All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.
A.D. POSEY Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treat...
NOAM CHOMSKY A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away...
BETH REVIS Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came ...
ALBERT CAMUS It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes...
MIKE KLEPPER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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ALBERT CAMUS Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUS Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUS The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
ALBERT CAMUS I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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ALBERT CAMUS In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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ALBERT CAMUS Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
ALBERT CAMUS The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
ALBERT CAMUS Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
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ALBERT CAMUS I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries...
ALBERT CAMUS A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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ALBERT CAMUS I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
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ALBERT CAMUS How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
ALBERT CAMUS Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
ALBERT CAMUS Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most ...
ALBERT CAMUS To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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ALBERT CAMUS To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to ...
ALBERT CAMUS We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ALBERT CAMUS Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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ALBERT CAMUS Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Excep...
ALBERT CAMUS It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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ALBERT CAMUS At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ...
ALBERT CAMUS I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
ALBERT CAMUS We are all special cases.
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ALBERT CAMUS To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
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ALBERT CAMUS We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their...
ALBERT CAMUS There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
ALBERT CAMUS Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
ALBERT CAMUS Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
ALBERT CAMUS Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
ALBERT CAMUS After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
ALBERT CAMUS You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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ALBERT CAMUS The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...
ALBERT CAMUS I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...
ALBERT CAMUS It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
ALBERT CAMUS A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
ALBERT CAMUS Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
ALBERT CAMUS Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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ALBERT CAMUS The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...
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ALBERT CAMUS Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
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ALBERT CAMUS From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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ALBERT CAMUS I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...
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ALBERT CAMUS When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...
ALBERT CAMUS People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUS Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
ALBERT CAMUS Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Musi...
ALBERT CAMUS To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
ALBERT CAMUS The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feelin...
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ALBERT CAMUS The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav...
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ALBERT CAMUS To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
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ALBERT CAMUS To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
ALBERT CAMUS But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
ALBERT CAMUS In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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ALBERT CAMUS If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own li...
ALBERT CAMUS Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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ALBERT CAMUS My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
ALBERT CAMUS Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
ALBERT CAMUS At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the out...
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ALBERT CAMUS What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
ALBERT CAMUS It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
ALBERT CAMUS Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shal...
ALBERT CAMUS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ALBERT CAMUS It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just a...
ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
ALBERT CAMUS The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to b...
ALBERT CAMUS There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death i...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by you...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in...
ALBERT CAMUS You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
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ALBERT CAMUS Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in ...
ALBERT CAMUS The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of ...
ALBERT CAMUS Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
ALBERT CAMUS Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...
ALBERT CAMUS Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can onl...
ALBERT CAMUS If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable g...
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ALBERT CAMUS In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do...
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ALBERT CAMUS The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi...
ALBERT CAMUS Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dread...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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ALBERT CAMUS Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not...
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ALBERT CAMUS The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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ALBERT CAMUS God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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ALBERT CAMUS We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unle...
ALBERT CAMUS One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
ALBERT CAMUS Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the va...
ALBERT CAMUS The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
ALBERT CAMUS The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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ALBERT CAMUS Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
ALBERT CAMUS Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, ...
ALBERT CAMUS Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...
ALBERT CAMUS To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
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ALBERT CAMUS As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
ALBERT CAMUS Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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ALBERT CAMUS Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
ALBERT CAMUS To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
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ALBERT CAMUS Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
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ALBERT CAMUS As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...
ALBERT CAMUS We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, ...
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ALBERT CAMUS Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calcula...
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ALBERT CAMUS Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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ALBERT CAMUS Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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ALBERT CAMUS Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
ALBERT CAMUS A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
ALBERT CAMUS That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
ALBERT CAMUS I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
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