Men quotes by Albert Camus

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"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."
"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world."
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."