Albert Camus Quotes - Page 11

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

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  Life, Men, Opposites

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

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

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  Doctors, Suffering, Taught

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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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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• I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

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  Race, Hands, No Friends

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

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  Destiny, Men, Faces

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Suicide, Philosophy, Suicidal

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

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

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  Art, Experts, Painting

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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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• 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.

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  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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• Without work all life goes rotten.

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  Work, Rotten, Stifling

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

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  Eczema, Fancy, Dishonesty

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

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  Waiting, Lasts, Judgment

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

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

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  Secret, Faces, Great Work

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

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  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.

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  Art, Responsibility, Men

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

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