Albert Camus Quotes - Page 11

• The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Men, Opposites

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.133, Vintage

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• For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

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  Hands, Sky, People

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

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• In order to exist, man must rebel.

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  Men, Order, Challenges

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

  Albert Camus

  Doctors, Suffering, Taught

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The truth, as the light, makes blind.

  Albert Camus

  Light, Blind

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

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Doe, Plague

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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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• I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

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  Eye, Blue, Sky

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.20, Vintage

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• Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Suicidal

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

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  Pain, Choices, Suffering

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.56, Vintage

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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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• There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

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  Risk, Being Loved

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• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Men, Faces

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

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

  Albert Camus

  Turning Your Back, Life Is, Ifs

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

  Albert Camus

  Eczema, Fancy, Dishonesty

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• Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

  Albert Camus

  Waiting, Lasts, Judgment

  "The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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• Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

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  Knows, Worth Living

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• In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Experts, Painting

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Responsibility, Men

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

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Race, Heaven, Cost

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

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• Give up the tyranny of female charm.

  Albert Camus

  Giving Up, Female, Charm

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

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• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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  Love, Beauty, Time

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

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• Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

  Albert Camus

  Secret, Faces, Great Work

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

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  Thinking, Psychology, Action

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

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• 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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