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Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Uncategorized
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Uncategorized
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. Uncategorized
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Uncategorized
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Uncategorized
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Uncategorized
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Uncategorized
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Uncategorized
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Uncategorized
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Uncategorized
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. Uncategorized