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Albert Camus

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NOT SURE I'm not sure what they will do. But I know they have been thinking about it, too.
DEVIN TAYLOR When I said that I'm not exactly sure what I meant. Boy, it's sure been true. It's been an absolutel...
JIM LARRANAGA I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
TEA OBREHT I've got children there, grownup there and I'm about to starve to death. I sure appreciate what they...
MARY STEWART He was about to kiss me. I was sure of it. I had never been kissed before and had no idea what to do...
HEIDI PELTIER When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...
JOHN WESLEY When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...
JOHN WESLEY Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'...
PETE BEST When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...
JOHN WESLEY I know what you're doing, though."

"I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I see...
GRACE BURROWES Sometimes you don't seem real sure about your answers. I just want to make sure that what you've tol...
DAVID BAUER If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great,...
JENNIE FINCH I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING A...
TERRY PRATCHETT When I first did it, coach Paterno talked to me about it and made sure that mentally I was OK.
BRENNAN COAKLEY I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND There was never any indication that this was coming. Sure, everybody is going about their business a...
GARY OZZELLO You don't laugh about your fellow professionals. But, for sure, I'm going to watch and I'm going to ...
SERGIO GARCIA I'm not really sure what they were doing, and that might have been the problem.
BRAD FOLTA Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN What are you talking about? Are you sure you know what you’re talking about? I don’t hate anybod...
VIN DIESEL I'm not sure what is shocking about this video. There's really nothing new or insightful from it.
RUSS KNOCKE I wasn't sure what I was expecting. It was pretty intense. Really intense.
MITCH DAVIS I have absolutely no knowledge of what Mr. Shah was talking about,
PETER MCGOWAN I am really excited about this opportunity I have been given. I played behind Jamal Lewis for four y...
CHESTER TAYLOR When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what...
TAYLOR WILSON I haven't let myself be angry about what happened, because it would tear me apart. I'm not sure I ca...
JANET LEE I may not have a criminal record today, but what about tomorrow?
BRAD MONROE I did not know about the compensation. I told him I have no idea what he was talking about.
MAUREEN TAYLOR I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that. I need to ask him about it.
JEFF GORDON Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitu...
ADRIANA LIMA Her doctors could not believe she was still alive and functioning as well as she was. She was really...
ALLISON BAILEY I'm not really sure what percent I'm paying. I just pay.
AMY COX My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that ma...
SANFORD I. WEILL I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
M. STANTON EVANS I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and in...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It's really been kind of an unintentional kind of thing for me. I guess you could say that my plan i...
DAVE CHANDLER Did it bother me at times? Sure, it bothered me. Did I ever go in the tank completely? No not really...
MATT HASSELBECK Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good at...
ADRIANA LIMA They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON I think I like something, but I'm not sure what?
ANONYMOUS I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest ...
BARRY DILLER It was just an awkward fall. I'm not really sure what it is but we'll find out pretty soon, hopefull...
EMILY QUIZON Make sure you are absolutely clear about what kind of place you want. Otherwise, the consumer won't ...
LARRY BEASLEY The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
ALBERT CAMUS It's always tough to have to say something to your team for the last time. With him, I'm not quite s...
BOB LECKIE I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I felt I was inbounds; I tried to make sure I got my foot on the ground and dove, making sure to sta...
MATT SCHAUB Excuse me, do you know where this hotel is? ... I think I came in on the other side but I'm not real...
ANDRAY BLATCHE I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the materi...
BELINDA STEWART-WILSON I was very pleased. I'm sure Eric feels good about what he did. He had a little extra on his fastbal...
WAYNE KRIVSKY He showed some areas and talked about specific areas he felt were changed, but I'm not sure he was a...
BILL LUSHER I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. Th...
RACHEL FIELD I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're...
RACHEL FIELD I'm not sure they have what they think they have. It may or may not be Randy's first touchdown ball....
DANTE DITRAPANO I didn’t feel up to arguing about it, but I was pretty sure if you loved everything you didn’t r...
ADAM REX I was a little frustrated. But Coach did a good job telling me not to worry about it. She told me ju...
ALISON BALES Like most people, I have mixed feelings about the war. But what I don't have mixed feelings about is...
KRISTEN HOLLOWAY But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
ANNA NEAGLE Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
HENRY ROLLINS Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm not really sure who did since I have more than 100 volunteers working on my campaign, and they'v...
STEVE HALL What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have beco...
FERGUS HENDERSON Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interest...
JOHN LEONARD What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save...
KAZUO ISHIGURO So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know...
STEPHANIE PERKINS I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad ch...
MINNIE DRIVER They really don't know me, and I really don't know them. But one thing for sure that I try to leave ...
RANDY MOSS I wasn't sure about it. It's tough to say the game would have been different.
PATRICK ALVIN I was hoping to place well but I wasn't sure I was going to because of the competition. I'm really p...
ERIC CROWLEY There was no doubt I was in bounds, but I wasn't sure about the time. But I know I was in.
CODY MOODY I am really not sure what they have agreed to, ... In all the written material we've been given by o...
BILL ARCHER I'm not sure about swimming yet, I haven't decided about that.
CRAIG HAMILTON I caught everybody off guard and ended up winning that one. I'm not really sure what everybody else ...
ERIC WEINRICH I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.
BRYAN FERRY She was getting better. But I'm not sure what happened.
BARBARA ROBLES I talked with the coach (Clay Norton) at Forest Hill and several people from there called me, but th...
ENNIS PROCTOR I'm happy I won the Mercer County Tournament, but I'm not satisfied. I'm not sure what would make me...
BILL BONNETTE What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
KYLE CHANDLER What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full ...
JOE STRUMMER I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I...
JOHN PRINE I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ...
NICOLE KIDMAN I know Casey talked to the Buccaneers, but from what I understand there has been no formal announcem...
CRAIG BOHL I know it may seem small and insignificant but its not about what it is, its about what it can becom...
OLASOT I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the...
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ALBERT CAMUS We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
ALBERT CAMUS It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. I...
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ALBERT CAMUS We have an interest in making sure that the decisions that are made about the long-term viability of...
HUGH DEPLAND The staff was very curious, but they thought it was really neat. I think we are going to work with t...
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
ALBERT CAMUS Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUS Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUS The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
ALBERT CAMUS I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUS The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...
ALBERT CAMUS All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
ALBERT CAMUS In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUS Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
ALBERT CAMUS I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as i...
ALBERT CAMUS Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every o...
ALBERT CAMUS But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
ALBERT CAMUS A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
ALBERT CAMUS The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
ALBERT CAMUS Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
ALBERT CAMUS Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
ALBERT CAMUS Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into ...
ALBERT CAMUS In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...
ALBERT CAMUS I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries...
ALBERT CAMUS A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
ALBERT CAMUS Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
ALBERT CAMUS I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
ALBERT CAMUS Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
ALBERT CAMUS How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
ALBERT CAMUS Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
ALBERT CAMUS Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most ...
ALBERT CAMUS To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
ALBERT CAMUS We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to ...
ALBERT CAMUS We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ALBERT CAMUS Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
ALBERT CAMUS The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the ot...
ALBERT CAMUS Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Excep...
ALBERT CAMUS It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
ALBERT CAMUS A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two ...
ALBERT CAMUS At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ...
ALBERT CAMUS I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
ALBERT CAMUS We are all special cases.
ALBERT CAMUS Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform ...
ALBERT CAMUS To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
ALBERT CAMUS For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hopi...
ALBERT CAMUS We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their...
ALBERT CAMUS There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
ALBERT CAMUS Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
ALBERT CAMUS Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
ALBERT CAMUS Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
ALBERT CAMUS After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in ...
ALBERT CAMUS You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
ALBERT CAMUS The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyph...
ALBERT CAMUS The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...
ALBERT CAMUS I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...
ALBERT CAMUS It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
ALBERT CAMUS A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
ALBERT CAMUS Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
ALBERT CAMUS Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUS Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...
ALBERT CAMUS The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...
ALBERT CAMUS If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say th...
ALBERT CAMUS In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
ALBERT CAMUS You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must underg...
ALBERT CAMUS There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
ALBERT CAMUS An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I lik...
ALBERT CAMUS Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUS You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv...
ALBERT CAMUS Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
ALBERT CAMUS Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
W...
ALBERT CAMUS Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep
ALBERT CAMUS From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't ev...
ALBERT CAMUS I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...
ALBERT CAMUS Personne n'est capable réellement de penser à personne, fût-ce dans le pire des malheurs. Car pen...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...
ALBERT CAMUS People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUS Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
ALBERT CAMUS Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Musi...
ALBERT CAMUS To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
ALBERT CAMUS The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feelin...
ALBERT CAMUS If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that ...
ALBERT CAMUS The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav...
ALBERT CAMUS We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
ALBERT CAMUS But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
ALBERT CAMUS In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
ALBERT CAMUS Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it,...
ALBERT CAMUS If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own li...
ALBERT CAMUS Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, a...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside ...
ALBERT CAMUS My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
ALBERT CAMUS Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
ALBERT CAMUS At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the out...
ALBERT CAMUS Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that w...
ALBERT CAMUS What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
ALBERT CAMUS It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
ALBERT CAMUS Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shal...
ALBERT CAMUS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ALBERT CAMUS It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just a...
ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
ALBERT CAMUS The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to b...
ALBERT CAMUS There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death i...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by you...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in...
ALBERT CAMUS You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
ALBERT CAMUS By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
ALBERT CAMUS Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in ...
ALBERT CAMUS The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of ...
ALBERT CAMUS Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
ALBERT CAMUS Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...
ALBERT CAMUS Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can onl...
ALBERT CAMUS If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable g...
ALBERT CAMUS Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
ALBERT CAMUS In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do...
ALBERT CAMUS The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus h...
ALBERT CAMUS The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi...
ALBERT CAMUS Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dread...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no.
ALBERT CAMUS The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value whi...
ALBERT CAMUS Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not...
ALBERT CAMUS Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the ...
ALBERT CAMUS The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
ALBERT CAMUS To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely ev...
ALBERT CAMUS To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the ...
ALBERT CAMUS God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
ALBERT CAMUS The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. Wh...
ALBERT CAMUS We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unle...
ALBERT CAMUS One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
ALBERT CAMUS Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the va...
ALBERT CAMUS The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
ALBERT CAMUS The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alon...
ALBERT CAMUS Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
ALBERT CAMUS Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, ...
ALBERT CAMUS Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...
ALBERT CAMUS To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
ALBERT CAMUS If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...
ALBERT CAMUS As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
ALBERT CAMUS Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
ALBERT CAMUS It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
ALBERT CAMUS After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those ...
ALBERT CAMUS Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
ALBERT CAMUS To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
ALBERT CAMUS All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
ALBERT CAMUS In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expec...
ALBERT CAMUS Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
ALBERT CAMUS Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
ALBERT CAMUS As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...
ALBERT CAMUS We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, ...
ALBERT CAMUS The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
ALBERT CAMUS Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calcula...
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, he...
ALBERT CAMUS Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUS Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balanc...
ALBERT CAMUS Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
ALBERT CAMUS More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinai...
ALBERT CAMUS Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
ALBERT CAMUS On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
ALBERT CAMUS A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
ALBERT CAMUS That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
ALBERT CAMUS I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
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