Albert Camus Quotes About Liberty
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
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Liberty is the right not to lie.
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...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.
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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
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Liberty is dangerous.
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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
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[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
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