Albert Camus quotes - page 7

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. (Albert Camus)
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. View quote
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Integrity has no need of rules. View quote
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. View quote
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. View quote
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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. View quote
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There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. View quote
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. (Albert Camus)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. View quote
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. View quote
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself. View quote
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. View quote
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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. (Albert Camus)
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. View quote
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I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. View quote
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade. View quote
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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. View quote
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