The First Man
Albert Camus
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”
“There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.”
“They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.”
“And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.”
“There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.”
“Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.”
“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”
“Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses...”
“You alone will know why I killed myself. You know my principles. I hate those who commit suicide. Besause of what they do TO OTHERS. If you have to do it, you must disguise it. Out of kindness.”
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poor-people, death, rich-people, memory
