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Quotations By Albert Camus


Beauty
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.

Beginnings
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.

Censorship
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

Death
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.

Destiny
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Existence
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Experience
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Fate
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

Intelligence
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.