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My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury of our history: Let us rejoice. Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfort-loving Europe and at being faced with cruel truths.
-Albert Camus
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
-Albert Camus
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Absurdity
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
-Albert Camus
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Acceptance
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
-Albert Camus
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Aristocracy
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
-Albert Camus
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Art
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
-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, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
-Albert Camus
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Assumptions
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
-Albert Camus
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Attitude
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In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
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Beauty
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
-Albert Camus
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
-Albert Camus, Notebooks
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Capital Punishment
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
-Albert Camus
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Capitalism
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
-Albert Camus
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Certainty
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
-Albert Camus
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Character
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Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
-Albert Camus
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Charity
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
-Albert Camus
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Christianity
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
-Albert Camus
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City Life, Cities
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
-Albert Camus
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Communication
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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Creation
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born.
-Albert Camus
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Crime
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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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Culture
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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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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Books by and about Albert Camus