Author: Albert Camus

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

- Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

- Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

- Albert Camus

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

- Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Albert Camus

For 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.

For 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.

- Albert Camus

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

- Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

- Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

- Albert Camus

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