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Albert Camus Quotes

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Life is the sum of all your choices.

- Albert Camus

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Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

- Albert Camus

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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

- Albert Camus

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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

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When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.

- Albert Camus

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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

- Albert Camus

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

- Albert Camus

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

- Albert Camus

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

- Albert Camus

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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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Don'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 Camus

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

- Albert Camus

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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

- Albert Camus

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

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[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

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I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

- Albert Camus

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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

- Albert Camus

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

- Albert Camus

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

- Albert Camus

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