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Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

-Albert Camus

age

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

-Albert Camus

alone

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

-Albert Camus

alone

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

-Albert Camus

art

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

-Albert Camus

art

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

-Albert Camus

art

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.

-Albert Camus

art

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

-Albert Camus

beauty

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

-Albert Camus

best

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

-Albert Camus

change

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

-Albert Camus

courage

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

-Albert Camus

courage

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

-Albert Camus

death

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

-Albert Camus

death

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.

-Albert Camus

death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

-Albert Camus

death

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

-Albert Camus

experience

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

-Albert Camus

experience

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

-Albert Camus

faith

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

-Albert Camus

famous

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

-Albert Camus

fear

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

-Albert Camus

finance

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

-Albert Camus

freedom

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

-Albert Camus

freedom

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

-Albert Camus

freedom

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.

-Albert Camus

freedom

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

-Albert Camus

freedom

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

-Albert Camus

friendship

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

-Albert Camus

friendship

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

-Albert Camus

future

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.

-Albert Camus

future

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

-Albert Camus

god

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

-Albert Camus

god

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

-Albert Camus

god

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

-Albert Camus

good

Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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