The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Quote by Albert Camus

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning

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...

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is...

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is...

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...

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...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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....

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

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

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...

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

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

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

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to...

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to...

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free...

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free...

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate...

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate...