Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."
Albert Camus
"he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. 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. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened."
Albert Camus
"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."
Albert Camus
"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children."
Albert Camus
"I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our strength. This is why woman is the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal. She is his harbor, his haven; it is in a woman's bed that he is generally arrested. Is she not all that remains to us of earthly paradise?"
Albert Camus
"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined."
Albert Camus
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”But I wonder if there’s no breaking then there’s no healing, and if there’s no healing then there’s no learning. And if there’s no learning then there’s no struggle. But the struggle is a part of life. So must all hearts be broken?"
Albert Camus
"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
Albert Camus
"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness."
Albert Camus
"Having money is a way of being free of money"
Albert Camus
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus
"In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history."
Albert Camus
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
Albert Camus
"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
Albert Camus
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
Albert Camus
"My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here."
Albert Camus
"We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant country where this selfishness will disappear."
Albert Camus
"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
Albert Camus
"Don't let them tell us stories"
Albert Camus
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