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Letter "A" » Albert Camus Quotes
«The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.»
«A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clerk, clerking, conqueror, post, post office, sub, The Post Office
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
astonished, casts, indefatigably, primordial, repeats, reproduce, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, sea shore
«Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
guillotine, implacable, republic, Republic of, The Republic
«It could only be a record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refus»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
afflictions, assuredly, despite, never-ending, relentless, saints
«More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bewildered, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, delivered, doctrinaire, doctrinaires, enfeebled, enfeebles, masses, on the one hand
«Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.»
«You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories: those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets.»
«) it is the image of this woman, sitting idly be her Algiers window indifferently watching life pass her by. He pities his mother but that is not the same as love. Feeling this detachment, he can begin to understand her unhappiness.»
«I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.»
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