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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Albert Camus

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Albert Camus

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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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Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Albert Camus

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Albert Camus

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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Albert Camus

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Albert Camus

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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus

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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Albert Camus

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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Albert Camus

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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

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