Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUSThere are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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