Albert Camus Quotes

• Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

  Albert Camus

  Life Is, Worth Living, Meaningless

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• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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  Freedom, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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  Love, Friendship, Happy

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• Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

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  Decisions You Make, Choices Made, Today

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• My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

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  Summer, Wisdom, Hate

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  Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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  Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

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  Giving, Unloved, Misfortunes

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

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  Inspirational, Believe, Anime

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• The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

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  Realization, Life Is, Absurd

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

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  Happiness, Ambition, Air

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• Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

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  Simple, People

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• You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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  Experience Yourself, Justice, Soul

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• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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  There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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  Gratitude, Night, Shadow

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.123, Vintage

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  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

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  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• For the first time, the first, 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.

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  Happiness, Heart, Firsts

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

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  Lying, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

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  Hope, No Hope

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• A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

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  Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

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  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

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  Passion, Age, Aging

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophy

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• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

  Albert Camus

  If There Is A God, Religion, Living My Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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