Albert Camus

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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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