Quote #160

In the universe suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up. Unconscious, secret calls, invitations from all the faces, they are the necessary reverse and the price of victory. There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

More from Albert Camus

  1. In the twentieth century power wears the mask of tragedy.
  2. Indeed, it is not so much identical conclusions that prove minds to be related as the contradictions that are common to them.
  3. 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…
  4. Is it possible eternally to reject injustice without ceasing to acclaim the nature of man and the beauty of the world? Our answer is yes. T…
  5. In the difficult hour we are living, what else can I desire than to exclude nothing and to learn how to braid with white thread and black t…
  6. It is not much to be able to do violence when you have been simply preparing for it for years and when violence is more natural to you than…
  7. In our daily trials rebellion plays the same role as does the 'cogito' in the realm of thought: it is the first piece of evidence. But this…
  8. Liberty ultimately seems to me, for societies and for individuals, for labor and for culture, the supreme good that governs all others.

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