Quote by Albert Camus
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

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

Category:
Revolution
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus

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Miscellaneous
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. – Aristide Briand

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I will not die an unlived life…. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. – Dawna Markova

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Miscellaneous

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. – Margaret Mead

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Food

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948

Category:
Integrity

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “All Trivia,” Afterthoughts, 1931

Category:
Writing