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I realized then that a man wh...

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

In that night alive with sign...

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

What made me run away was dou...

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

None of the evils which total...

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

All systems of morality are b...

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

What, then, is that incalcula...

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

These are facts the heart can...

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

What I believe to be true I m...

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

The world expects of Christia...

The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

The only conception of freedo...

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

The world I live in is loaths...

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

There are means that cannot b...

There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

You know very well that I no ...

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

On the whole, men are more go...

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 1179 quotes

Thus, I always began by assum...

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Accept life, take it as it is...

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Your success and happiness ar...

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

... there are two types of ha...

... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

What is called a reason for l...

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

You cannot acquire experience...

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

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