Albert Camus quotes - page 6

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules. (Albert Camus)
The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. View quote
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Query: How to contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by travelling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat. View quote
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There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done. View quote
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Can one be a saint without God?, that's the problem, in fact the only problem, I'm up against today. View quote
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He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another. View quote
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. View quote
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. View quote
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Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. View quote
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. View quote
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others. (Albert Camus)
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. View quote
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. View quote
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. View quote
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. View quote
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There is no shame in preferring happiness. View quote
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. View quote
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. View quote
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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. View quote
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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. View quote
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. (Albert Camus)
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. View quote
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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. View quote
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative. View quote
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. View quote
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