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Albert Camus

Nature
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
3.6 · 53 votes · 114 reads
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Government and Politics
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
3.8 · 33 votes · 186 reads
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Time
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be
3.9 · 6 votes · 149 reads
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Various
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
4.6 · 5 votes · 87 reads
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Government and Politics
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
3.5 · 22 votes · 192 reads
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Defects
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
5.0 · 43 votes · 123 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.0 · 34 votes · 82 reads
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Government and Politics
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
3.9 · 42 votes · 190 reads
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Defects
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
4.1 · 27 votes · 40 reads
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Society
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
3.5 · 58 votes · 141 reads
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Nature
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
3.1 · 30 votes · 129 reads
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Society
There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
3.1 · 14 votes · 154 reads
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Thought and Reason
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
3.4 · 21 votes · 21 reads
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Feelings
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
4.3 · 18 votes · 86 reads
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Feelings
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
3.0 · 36 votes · 195 reads
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Various
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.
3.6 · 5 votes · 122 reads
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Various
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
4.7 · 18 votes · 6 reads
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Feelings
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
4.6 · 15 votes · 155 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
4.9 · 10 votes · 27 reads
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Feelings
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
5.0 · 17 votes · 76 reads
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Thought and Reason
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
3.0 · 47 votes · 42 reads
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Nature
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.
4.3 · 26 votes · 100 reads
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Society
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, that it is inside ourselves.
3.3 · 24 votes · 13 reads
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Society
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
3.1 · 14 votes · 180 reads
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Feelings
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; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the me
3.6 · 44 votes · 179 reads
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Society
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
5.0 · 59 votes · 146 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
4.5 · 64 votes · 165 reads
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Society
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.
4.1 · 16 votes · 166 reads
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Society
Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
3.4 · 6 votes · 71 reads
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Virtues
You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
3.0 · 38 votes · 107 reads
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