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

Quote by Albert Camus

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate...

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that...

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that...

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to....

Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to....

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where...

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where...

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the...

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the...

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the...

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the...

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I...

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I...

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life...

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life...

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions...

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions...

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and...

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and...

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity...

It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity...

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair...

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair...