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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
By Albert Camus
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
By Albert Camus
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.
By Albert Camus
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.
By Albert Camus
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
By Albert Camus
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
By Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
By Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
By Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
By Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
By Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
By Albert Camus
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
By Albert Camus
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
By Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
By Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
By Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
By Albert Camus
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
By Albert Camus