Tag: Albert Camus
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Albert Camus
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert Camus
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Albert Camus
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus
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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
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus