Tag: Albert Camus
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert Camus
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus
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Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert Camus
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
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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.
Albert Camus
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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
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert Camus
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus