Camus Quotes
My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kill...
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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or ...
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What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for...
Show MoreI leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teach...
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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches...
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In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasio...
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What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far fro...
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They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the m...
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I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up moder...
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How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear bei...
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Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the...
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how ...
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We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until ...
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In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations...
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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great fact...
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As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive w...
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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in...
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