Albert Camus
The Stranger
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Ebooks: The Stranger
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Albert Camus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus
Absurdism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
The Myth of Sisyphus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
DBanach: The Myth of Sisyphus
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
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. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
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. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.