We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
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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.
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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 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 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.
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ALBERT CAMUS You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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ALBERT CAMUS It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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ALBERT CAMUS Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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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 What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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ALBERT CAMUS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
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ALBERT CAMUS You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
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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 Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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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
ALBERT CAMUS When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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