best quotes camus

Indeed, it is a paradox typical of the human mind to grasp the elements without being able to embrace the summary: epistemological paradox of a science in some facts, but insufficient: sufficient in its theories, but uncertain, that I perceived a psychological paradox in its parts, but inaccessible in its profound unity. (From Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism)

Instead of killing and dying to become who we are, we live and let live to create what we really are.

Our only justification, if we have one, is to speak on behalf of all those who can not. (best quotes artist and his time”)

Great ideas come into the world with the gentleness of doves. Perhaps if we listen well, will hear, among the barrage of empires and nations a faint flutter of wings, the sweet thrill of life and hope.

The death penalty, as it is applied, is a disgusting butchery, an outrage inflicted by the person and body.
There is no love of life without despair of life.

Perhaps a sign of youth is magnificent vocation for easy happiness. (From The reverse and the right)
A desperate literature is a contradiction in terms. (From Summer)

The truth like light blinds. The lie, however, is a beautiful sunset, which brings out all the objects. (From The Fall)

Not being loved is a simple bad luck, the real tragedy is not to love. (From Summer)

Politics and the fate of mankind are forged by men without ideals and greatness. Men who have greatness within them do not come into politics.
Virtue can not separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
The absurd is lucid reason which finds its limits.
The absurd is sin without God (The Myth of Sisyphus)
The intellectual is one whose mind is observed.

The only possible justification for God is not there.
In men, things are more to admire than to despise.
There is no fate that you do not win with contempt.
We will never be happy as long as we continue to seek what is happiness, so we can not live life, trying to find meaning.
I do not want to be a genius: I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and requested the essence of being.
To exist only once in the world, you need not exist anymore.
Why should we love to love very rarely?
When we are all guilty, will be democracy.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who have written in an ambiguous fashion commentators.
What is important between friends is not what is said but what you do not need to say.

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