“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
— Albert Camus
Author: 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
Author: Albert Camus
Category: death
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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
Author: Albert Camus
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
— Albert Camus
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
— Albert Camus
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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
— Albert Camus
Author: Albert Camus
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
— 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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“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
Author: Albert Camus
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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
— Albert Camus
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
— Albert Camus
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
— Albert Camus
Author: Albert Camus
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