If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
– Albert Camus
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- 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
- To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. – Albert Camus
- I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two. – Albert Camus
- Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. – Albert Camus
- Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. – Albert Camus
- But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves – Albert Camus
- It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. – Albert Camus
- 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
- How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. – Albert Camus
- Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. – Albert Camus
- Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world. – Albert Camus
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- We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help. – Albert Camus
- But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing. – Albert Camus
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- Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
- MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
- Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
- Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
- Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures. – Rousas John Rushdoony
- I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine – 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
- Let’s not worry. It’s too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately! – Albert Camus
- Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning. – Clive Barker
- True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein – Albert Einstein
- History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx
- Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Men may act as cruelly as dragons, but dragons will never act as men do. – Steven Poore
- 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
- 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
- Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity–happiness was human, eternity ordinary. – Albert Camus
- In the long run one gets used to anything. – 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
- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. – Albert Camus