Albert Camus Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• If the world were clear, art would not exist.

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  Art, Design, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• It is easier to kill what we do not know.

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  Easier, Knows

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• We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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  Life, Personality, Shapes

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

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• Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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  Inspirational, Life, Men

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

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

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  Happiness, Son, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.122, Vintage

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• Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

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  Government, Effort, Leader

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• In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

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  Facts, Serious, Speak

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.176, Vintage

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• I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

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  Country, Justice, Able

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.5, Vintage

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• I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

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  Life, Men, Deeds

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

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  Facts, Well Known, Homeland

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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• It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

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  Heart, Body, Illusion

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

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• what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

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  Stronger, Makes You Stronger

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• Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

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  Greater

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

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• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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  Life, Mean, Cities

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

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• Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

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  Greatness, Trying, Way

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

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• The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

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  Hero, Passion, Live In The Present

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• Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

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  Love Is, Vanity, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

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  Peace, War, Winning

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

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  Wisdom, Justice, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.288, Vintage

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• I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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  Accepting, Made, Incapable

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

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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  Time, Police, Law Enforcement

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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• When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

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  Sleep, Men, Speaks Out

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

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  Heart, Sublime, Indifference

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• I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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  Struggle, Heart, Night

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

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