Albert Camus quotes - page 8

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. (Albert Camus)
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. View quote
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. View quote
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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. View quote
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. View quote
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Albert Camus)
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic. View quote
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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy. View quote
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This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. View quote
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. View quote
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. View quote
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. (Albert Camus)
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. View quote
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. View quote
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. View quote
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. View quote
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