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Albert Camus

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Albert Camus

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

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Albert Camus

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

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Albert Camus

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”

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“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

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Albert Camus

“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”

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“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.”

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Albert Camus

“After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.”

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Albert Camus

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”

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Albert Camus

“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”

Source/Notes: The fall (2006 edition), Penguin Modern Classics

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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.”

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Albert Camus

“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”

Source/Notes: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (2012 edition), Random House LLC - ISBN: 9780307827838

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Albert Camus

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

Source/Notes: Notebooks (1942-1951)

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Albert Camus

“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”

Source/Notes: Notebooks, 1935-1942 (1978 edition), Harcourt

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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.”

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