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[ Remarks at debate, University of Stockholm, 1957 :] I have always denounced terrorism. I must also denounce a terrorism which is exercised blindly, in the streets of Algiers for example, and which some day could strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice, but I shall defend my mother above justice.

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N’attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours .

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Can one be a saint without God? That’s the problem, in fact the only problem, I’m up against today.

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Je vais vous dire un grand secret, mon cher .

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I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

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La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d’homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux .

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Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier . Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday. L’Étranger (The Stranger) pt. 1, ch. 1 (1942)

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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were, we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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