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“"This is the truth," we say. "You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right."”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate – for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood—never!”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“N'attendez pas le Jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours.”

— Albert Camus

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More on this quote: The Fall (1956) Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. QOTD 2007·11·07 Sound file
• Variant translations: I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Do not await the last Judgement. It takes place everyday.
You needn't await the Final Judgment. It takes place every day.

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“The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: The Fall (1956)

“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

“A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

“What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?”

— Albert Camus

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Source: Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

“I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.”

— Albert Camus

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Quote source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960) "Pessimism and Tyranny"

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. It would be easy, however, to destroy that good conscience by shouting to them: if you want the happiness of the people, let them speak out and tell what kind of happiness they want and what kind they don't want! But, in truth, the very ones who make use of such alibis know they are lies; they leave to their intellectuals on duty the chore of believing in them and of proving that religion, patriotism, and justice need for their survival the sacrifice of freedom.”

— Albert Camus

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Quote source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960) "Homage to an Exile", published as an essay in Actuelles III, originally a speech "delivered 7 December 1955 at a banquet in honor of President Eduardo Santos, editor of El Tiempo, driven out of Colombia by the dictatorship".

“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.”

— Albert Camus

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Quote source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960) "The Artist and His Time"

“Seulement, il faut du temps pour être heureux. Beaucoup de temps. Le bonheur lui aussi est une longue patience.”

— Albert Camus

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Quote source: A Happy Death (1971) Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

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“It's better to bet on this life than on the next.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.”

— Albert Camus

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“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“Fate is not in man but around him.”

— Albert Camus

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Source: A Happy Death (1971)

“Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.”

— Albert Camus

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