Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated


Albert Meltzer

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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
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occa...
MARV ALBERT
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
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUS
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...
ALBERT CAMUS
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS