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" 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. "

Albert Camus

Best

Place

Knowledge

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Citizens

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To Love

Love

" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

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Winter

" To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. "

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Everything

Believing

" There is no love of life without despair of life. "

" Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. "

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

" I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. "

" An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "

" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. "

" The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. "

" You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. "

" 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. "

" Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. "

Albert Camus

Solitude

Life

" Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. "

" Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. "

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Becoming

Ends

" You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. "

" Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. "

" The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. "

" I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. "

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Lost

Gray

" 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. "

" Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. "

" 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. "

" Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. "

" 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. "

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Daily

Thinking