Quote by Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus

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Mankind, Man
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus

Category:
Discovery
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Revolution
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. – Aristotle

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Revolution

I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu

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Revolution

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. – Albert Camus

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Revolution

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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Revolution

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A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit. – Richard Bach

I love my parents. But Im almost 28 and its not fun to be asked, What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home? It just makes you feel like a kid. Its this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. – Jonah Hill

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Home

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. – Ernst Mach

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Experience

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens