Albert Camus Quotes - Page 10

• No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

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  Sea, Promise, Matter

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

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  Philosophy, Cowardice

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

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• Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

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  Death, Matter, Stranger

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

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  Heart, Men, Divinity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.147, Vintage

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• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

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  Memories, Humility, Shining

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• I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

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  Dog, Attachment, Owning A Pet

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.121, Vintage

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• Without freedom there is no art.

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  Art

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• There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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  Men, Reason, Existence

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• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Lying

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• What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

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  Lying, Mean, Two

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

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  Family First, Poverty, Firsts

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• I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

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  Selfishness, Continuity, Day To Day

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• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

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  Art, Pain, Lying

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• the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

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  Winning, Play

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• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

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  Sea, Luxury, Poverty

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

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  Flower, Hands, Separation

  Albert Camus (1961). “The Outsider”

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• Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

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  Children, Numbers, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

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  Hands, Effort, Wish

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• Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

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  Work

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• Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

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  Happiness, Time, Long

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.43, Vintage

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• I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

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  Order, Strict, Strict Rules

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

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• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

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  Ideas, People, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

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  Men, Wander, Anxious

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.105, Vintage

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• A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

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  Men, Independence, Craving

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.25, Vintage

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