I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
– Albert Camus
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- Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire. – Anonymous
- Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I couldn’t quite understand how an ordinary man’s good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. – Albert Camus
- I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. – Albert Camus
- How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. – Albert Camus
- Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. – Albert Camus
- Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. – Albert Camus
- When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn. – Albert Camus
- Fate is not in man but around him – Albert Camus
- But a man’s beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. – Albert Camus
- From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart. – Albert Camus
- Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man’s awareness of it. – Albert Camus
- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus
- The greatest choices are great love, great life and great deeds. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness. – Dada Bhagwan
- Good deeds may not lead to heaven…still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already. – Palle Oswald
- What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. – Henry David Thoreau
- A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. – William Hazlitt
- You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul. – Albert Camus
- There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it. – Albert Camus
- My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here. – Albert Camus
- If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. – Albert Camus
- Peace is the only battle worth waging. – Albert Camus
- I would like to be able to breathe-” to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. – Albert Camus
- It is not true that the heart wears out -” but the body creates this illusion. – Albert Camus
- There is scarcely any passion without struggle. – Albert Camus
- Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. – Albert Camus
- People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels. – Albert Camus
- Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity–happiness was human, eternity ordinary. – Albert Camus
- Men die:and they are not happy. – Albert Camus
- In the long run one gets used to anything. – Albert Camus
- Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. – Albert Camus
- Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else’s blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. – Albert Camus
- … We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. – Albert Camus
- Let’s not worry. It’s too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately! – Albert Camus
- Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable. – Albert Camus
- Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder. – Albert Camus
- One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it – Albert Camus
- Stupidity has a knack for getting its way. – Albert Camus