Albert Camus

114 quotes

"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim"

Albert Camus

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

Albert Camus

"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."

Albert Camus

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

Albert Camus

"Integrity has no need of rules."

Albert Camus

"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day."

Albert Camus

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

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"Every act of rebelling expresses a nostalgia for innocence."

Albert Camus

"Without work all life goes rotten."

Albert Camus

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Albert Camus

"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day."

Albert Camus

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

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"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Albert Camus

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

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"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."

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"Real generosity towards the future consists of giving all to what is present"

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"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong?"

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"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."

Albert Camus

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."

Albert Camus

"Dont walk behind me,I may not lead. Dont walk in front of me,I may not follow.Just walk beside me and be my friend"

Albert Camus

"Life is the sum of all your choices."

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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."

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"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."

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"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus