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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“One always finds one's burden again.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Today we are always ready to judge as we are to fornicate.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“I know now that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of a great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain, but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of righting a plague is, common decency.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Something must happen—and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
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