"I am too much in love with..." - Quote by Albert Camus
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
More by Albert Camus
“You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.”
“We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.”
“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
More on Honesty
“Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.”
“A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.”
“We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!”
More on Self Deception
“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]”
“Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.”
“No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.”