You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

Quote by Albert Camus

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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself;...

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself;...

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

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

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

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...

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...

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

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

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to...

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to...

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...

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...

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of...

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of...

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 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...

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why...

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why...

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

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

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.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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

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