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Quotations by author » Albert Camus
French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Writing
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
ConcernHappiness
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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To give all, to sacrifice all without expecting to get anything in
return--this is love.
C'est cela l'amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
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To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
Marriage
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
CharityGenerosity
True artists scorn nothing.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person
Debauchery
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.
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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