The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus Quotations
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You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Live to the point of tears.
What is a rebel A man who says no.
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.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Integrity has no need of rules.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.