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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.


Albert Camus

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ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk...
ALBERT CAMUS Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and r...
ALBERT CAMUS A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
ALBERT CAMUS No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks ...
ALBERT CAMUS The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the sa...
ALBERT CAMUS Listen, Tar, ... This is the real problem: whatever happens, I shall always defend you against the f...
ALBERT CAMUS In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we d...
ALBERT CAMUS An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
ALBERT CAMUS Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly
ALBERT CAMUS We rarely confide in those who are better than we are
ALBERT CAMUS In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer
ALBERT CAMUS Life is a sum of all your choices.
ALBERT CAMUS Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
ALBERT CAMUS Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a roma...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, e...
ALBERT CAMUS In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that make...
ALBERT CAMUS Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUS At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
ALBERT CAMUS Por eso resulta tan desgarrador el amor de los hombres. No pueden evitar separarse de lo que aman.
ALBERT CAMUS My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the mi...
ALBERT CAMUS Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!
ALBERT CAMUS There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere dee...
ALBERT CAMUS Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion...
ALBERT CAMUS The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
ALBERT CAMUS Le fameux discours de Saint-Just a ainsi tous les airs d'une étude théologique. "Louis [XVI] étra...
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 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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