72 quotes by Albert Camus

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.” — 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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“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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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” — Albert Camus

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“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.” — 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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“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” — 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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“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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“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.” — Albert Camus

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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” — Albert Camus

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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” — 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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“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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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” — Albert Camus

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“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.” — Albert Camus

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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.” — Albert Camus

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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” — 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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“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.” — Albert Camus

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“N'être plus écouté : c'est cela qui est terrible lorsqu'on est vieux.” — 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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