Albert Camus Quotes - Page 13

• But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Years

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

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  Running, Distance, Long

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

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  Happiness, Doe, Destruction

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• The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

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  Life, Taken, Discovery

  Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.

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• There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

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  Helping Others, People, World

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• Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

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  Sensible, Stills

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

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  Men, Every Man

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

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• ... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

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  Want, Return, Stranger

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• There is no frontier between being and appearing.

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  Frontiers, Appearing

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

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  Summer, Winter, Invincible Summer

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• To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

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  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

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

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  Work

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• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

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  Friendship, Honesty, Believe

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• It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

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  Art, Struggle, Artist

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• Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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  Order, Practice, Generosity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

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  Heart, Echoes, Absurdity Of Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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• The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

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  World, Absurd, Refuge

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• There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

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  Eye, Fate, People

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

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  Happiness, Choices, Desire

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.118, Vintage

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• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Love Life

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

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• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

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  Men, Luck, Energy

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

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• It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

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  Silence, Calamity, Plague

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• With rebellion, awareness is born

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  Awareness, Rebellion, Born

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.15, Vintage

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• Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Mistress

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