Albert Camus
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
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"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
"لا يمكنك خلق التجربة، بل عليك أن تخوضها."
Albert Camus
"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."
"لا نتوجه إلى الله إلا لطلب المستحيل."
Albert Camus
"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."
"لأصحح لامبالاة فطرية، وُضعتُ في منتصف الطريق بين الشقاء والشمس. منعني الشقاء من الاعتقاد بأن كل شيء على ما يرام تحت الشمس، وعلّمتني الشمس أن التاريخ ليس كل شيء."
Albert Camus
"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."
"إن الشر الكامن في العالم يكاد يكون دائمًا وليد الجهل، وقد تُلحق النوايا الحسنة من الضرر ما تُلحقه النوايا السيئة إن افتقرت إلى الفهم."
Albert Camus
"Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it."
"إدراكًا مني لاستحالة انفصالي عن زمني، قررت أن أكون جزءًا منه."
Albert Camus
"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."
"وُلدتُ فقيرًا وبلا دين، تحت سماءٍ"
Albert Camus
"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."
"لأن أعيش حياتي كأن الله موجود ثم أموت لأكتشف أنه ليس كذلك، خير لي من أن أعيشها كأنه غير موجود ثم أموت لأكتشف أنه كان موجودًا."
Albert Camus
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
"التقدم الحقيقي الوحيد يكمن في تعلم كيف تكون مخطئًا بمفردك."
Albert Camus
"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."
"العقل الحديث في فوضى عارمة. لقد تمددت المعرفة حتى لم يعد العالم ولا ذكاؤنا يجدان موطئ قدم. إنها حقيقة أننا نعاني من العدمية."
Albert Camus
"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
Albert Camus
"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."
Albert Camus
"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."
Albert Camus
"I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."
Albert Camus
"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
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
Albert Camus
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