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Quotes by Albert Camus
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"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
Albert Camus"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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
Albert Camus"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
Albert Camus"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."
Albert Camus"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Albert Camus"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."
Albert Camus"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
Albert Camus"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
Albert Camus"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus"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"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"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."
Albert Camus"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
Albert Camus"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus"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."
Albert Camus"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
Albert Camus"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
Albert Camus"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
Albert Camus"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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
Albert Camus"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
Albert Camus"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
Albert Camus"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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
Albert Camus"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
Albert Camus"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."
Albert Camus"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
Albert Camus"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."
Albert Camus"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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
Albert Camus"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
Albert Camus"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
Albert Camus"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
Albert Camus"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
Albert Camus"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
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