This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
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I know the terrible things people do to each other. I’ve lived it. I�... RACHEL MORGAN I am awake and yet I dream. You can be the realist and I can be the dreamer. When our worlds collide... KAREN A. BAQUIRAN I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sid... STEVEN MAGEE I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge ... HENRY JAMES I can be all that I can be. Endless opportunities, this is my world. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be n... ERICH FROMM I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak ... JOHNNY DEPP If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other all... HANNAH E. O'NEAL One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exist... 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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 ALBERT CAMUS