Albert Camus

Albert Camus

"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."
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"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."
Albert Camus
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
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
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken."
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
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
Albert Camus
"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."
Albert Camus
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
Albert Camus
"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
Albert Camus
"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
Albert Camus
"In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist."
Albert Camus
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Albert Camus
"There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
Albert Camus
"There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted."
Albert Camus
"I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue."
Albert Camus
"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."
Albert Camus
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
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