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.

Quote by Albert Camus

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the...

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the...

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

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Integrity has no need of rules.

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

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

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

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

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in...

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in...

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of....

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of....

Dont believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...

Dont believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...

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

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

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not...

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not...

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...

I know of only one duty, and that is to love

I know of only one duty, and that is to love

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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...

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...

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the...

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the...

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....

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an...

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an...