I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUSI should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUSIt is better to burn than to disappear.
ALBERT CAMUSA person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
ALBERT CAMUSIf absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
ALBERT CAMUSThose who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
ALBERT CAMUSThere is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
ALBERT CAMUSIt is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
ALBERT CAMUSSometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
ALBERT CAMUSDon’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSI don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
ALBERT CAMUSMan is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUSBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
ALBERT CAMUSHappiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
ALBERT CAMUSPeople hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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