Albert Camus

Albert Camus

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
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"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
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"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."
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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
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"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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"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."
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"Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it."
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"I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude."
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
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"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
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"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."
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"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
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"In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all."
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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."
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"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken."
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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."
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
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"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
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