Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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.

By : Albert Camus

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

By : Albert Camus

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

By : Albert Camus

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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

By : Albert Camus

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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

By : Albert Camus

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

By : Albert Camus

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

By : Albert Camus

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

By : Albert Camus

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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

By : Albert Camus

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

By : Albert Camus

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

By : Albert Camus

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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

By : Albert Camus

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