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Letter "A" » Albert Camus Quotes
«The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
advantage, alibi, conscience, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, giving, in particular, particular, Particulars, provides, servants, The People, tyrannies, tyranny, tyrants, welfare
«To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.»
«You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.»
«In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
invincible, in the midst
«Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
artistic, description, expressions, extreme, imitation, Monkeys, realism, realistic, tempted
«Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
boundaries, center, deadly, Greeks, Greek a, impulse, the Greeks
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
authentic, culture, implies, jungle, jungles, relative
«All healthy men have thought of their own suicide»
«Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.»
«Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
balance, insanity, revolution, rules of order
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