"Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
~ Albert Camus ~











Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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"Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capab...
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"False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.
"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meanin...
"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge,...
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
"Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it...
"It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being...
"What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.
"Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased f...
"From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.
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