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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Quote by Albert Camus about world, quiet, silence

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Quote by Albert Camus about destiny

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, change, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, contentment

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

Quote by Albert Camus about death, peace, heart

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Quote by Albert Camus about courage, philosophy

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Quote by Albert Camus about poverty, history, happiness

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

Quote by Albert Camus about art

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, death, impossible, love

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and nobody in his right mind will believe this today.

Quote by Albert Camus about reality, society, mind, faith, rightness, good, good luck, man

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Quote by Albert Camus about happiness

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.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, sun, indifference, history

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Quote by Albert Camus about faith, police, force, time

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Quote by Albert Camus

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, generosity, charity, order

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.

Quote by Albert Camus about music, reason, wish, dream, art, magic

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Quote by Albert Camus about lie, light, truth

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Quote by Albert Camus about virtue, principle, reality

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Quote by Albert Camus about love, people