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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
“For nothing in the world is it worth turning one's back on what one loves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“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
“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
“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
“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
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
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
“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
“Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.”
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
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
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
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“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
“One always finds one's burden again.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“once I'd learned the trick of remembering things, I never had a moment's boredom.”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“The important thing . . . is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“We always end up by having the appearance of our truths.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“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
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”
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
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way”
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
“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 is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“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
“the one way of making people hang together is to give 'em a spell of plague.”
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
“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
“There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for.”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“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
“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
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
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