Quote #199

The fecundity and the importance of a literary form are often measured by the trash it contains.

More from Albert Camus

  1. The Empire supposes a negation and a certainty: the certainty of the infinite malleability of man and the negation of human nature.
  2. The great novelists are philosopher-novelists whom write in images instead of arguments.
  3. The doctrines of evolution and the notions of selection that accompany them have made of the future of society a final end. The political u…
  4. The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d'Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.
  5. The divine availability of the condemned man before whom the prison doors open in a certain early dawn, that unbelievable disinterestedness…
  6. The irrational imposes limits on the rational, which, in its turn, gives it its moderation.
  7. The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
  8. The majority of revolutions are shaped by, and derive their originality from, murder.

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