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.

Quote by Albert Camus

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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...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

How utterly futile debauchery seems once it has been accomplished, and what ashes of disgust...

How utterly futile debauchery seems once it has been accomplished, and what ashes of disgust...

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I...

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I...

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it...

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence...

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile....

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile....

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...

To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a...

To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a...

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

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

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

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and...

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom,...

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom,...

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is...

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is...