What we have done for ourselves alone di... by Albert Camus | We Heart Quotes

Author philosopher Literature. French Nobel Prize

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

- Albert Camus

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Man Love

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

- Albert Camus

Nothing

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

- Albert Camus

Money People

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

- Albert Camus

Autumn

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

Life

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

- Albert Camus

Truth

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

- Albert Camus

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