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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.


Albert Camus

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ALBERT CAMUS I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for moder...
ALBERT CAMUS I know of only one duty, and that is to love
ALBERT CAMUS In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion
ALBERT CAMUS Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian
ALBERT CAMUS There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
ALBERT CAMUS ... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
ALBERT CAMUS Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
ALBERT CAMUS The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUS Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
ALBERT CAMUS This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise ...
ALBERT CAMUS But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's dee...
ALBERT CAMUS I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
ALBERT CAMUS People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when...
ALBERT CAMUS She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again...
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