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The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.


Albert Camus

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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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