3 December 2020 Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
3 December 2020 Albert Camus The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
