Albert Camus Quotes - Page 11

• Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

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  Happiness, Success, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

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• But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

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  Mean, Doe, Plague

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• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

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  Men, Hands, Birth Defects

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• We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

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  Race, Heaven, Cost

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.81, Vintage

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• Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

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  Passion, Truth Is, Virtue

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

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• There is only one class of men, the privileged class

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  Men, Class, Privileged

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Heart, Facts

  "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

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• Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

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  Eczema, Fancy, Dishonesty

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• Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

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  Happiness And Love, Principles, Refuse

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

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• Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

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  Turning Your Back, Life Is, Ifs

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• We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

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  Thinking, Ends, Resolve

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• Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

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  Able, Conscious, My Time

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• Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

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  Wind, Police, Revolution

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• Give up the tyranny of female charm.

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  Giving Up, Female, Charm

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

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• One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

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  People, Leader, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.182, Vintage

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• To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

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  Men, Years, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.62, Vintage

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• The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

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  Nature, Law, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.36, Vintage

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• but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

  Albert Camus

  Should

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

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  Heart, Giving, Forever

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• Liberty is dangerous.

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  Liberty, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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  Art, Responsibility, Men

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

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• A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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  Men, Conscious

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.32, Vintage

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• Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

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  Mean, Historical, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.292, Vintage

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• It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

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  Suffering, Happiness And Love, Unhappy

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

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• Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

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  Proof, Begin Again, Persons

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

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