We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

By : Albert Camus

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

By : Albert Camus

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

By : Albert Camus

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Integrity has no need of rules.

By : Albert Camus

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Without freedom, no art

By : Albert Camus

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

By : Albert Camus

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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

By : Albert Camus

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

By : Albert Camus

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