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Albert Camus Inspirational Quotes (932)

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Having money is a way of being free of money.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
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The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters you finally hand over your brothers.
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Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial today it determines the law.
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It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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Without freedom there is no art.
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
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