Albert Camus - Love Quotes

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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

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In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

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There is not love of life without despair about life.

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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

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The act of love... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

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

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