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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus
Life, Hate, War
"The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

Albert Camus
Passion, Age, Aging
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Albert Camus
Order, Trying, Seems
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus
Inspirational, Life, Respect
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

Albert Camus
Simple, People

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Albert Camus
Trying, Absurd, Existence

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

Albert Camus
Inspirational, Courage, Philosophy

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Albert Camus
Life, Dying, Causes

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

Albert Camus
Life, Gratitude, Lying

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus
Life, Wise, Wisdom
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus
Understanding, Experience, Minimalist
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Albert Camus
Life, Summer, Recovery

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Albert Camus
Responsibility, Privilege

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Albert Camus
Philosophical, Everyday, Important

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus
Inspirational, Happiness, Happy
Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Albert Camus
Lying, Fiction, Telling The Truth

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

Albert Camus
Men, Want, Rich
Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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.

Albert Camus
If There Is A God, Religion, Living My Life
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus
Love, Life, Valentines Day

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Albert Camus
Peace, War, Tyrants
Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage

Life is the sum of your choices.

Albert Camus
Opportunity, Choices, Ethics

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus
Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love

On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.

Albert Camus
Morning, Fall, Heart

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

Integrity needs no rules.

Albert Camus
Integrity, Needs, Ethics

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