You can read Albert Camus Quotes. He was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He was the second-youngest who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957. Born in 7 November 1913 Mondovi, Algeria and Died in 4 January 1960 (aged 46) Villeblevin, France.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Having money is a way of being free of money.
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I, therefore, conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn’t feel it.
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A loveless world is a dead world.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Success is easy to obtain, what is difficult is to deserve it.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. – Albert Camus
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
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To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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You always get exaggerated notions about things you don’t know anything about.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than us. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don’t want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than us. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don’t want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation.
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find the meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
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Yes, everything is simple. It’s people who complicate things.
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That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.
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Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
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Where there is no hope, we must invent it.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend because I continue to love myself.
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Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
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My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
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I knew a man who gave 20 years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, that’s all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen – even loveless slavery, even war or death.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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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.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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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 as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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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.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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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.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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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.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
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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.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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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.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
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There is no love of life without despair of life.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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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.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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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.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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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.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
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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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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.
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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.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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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.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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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.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
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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.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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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.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
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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 is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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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.
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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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 human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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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.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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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.
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
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We are all special cases.
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
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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.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
