226 ordspråk av Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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Murder is terribly exhausting.
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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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