Albert Camus Quotes - Page 2

• The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Everyday, Important

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• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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

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• I rebel; therefore I exist.

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  Life, Rebel, Existentialism

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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  Men, Rebel, Conformity

  L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

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• Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

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  Responsibility, Privilege

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• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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  Love, Life, Valentines Day

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• You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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  Understanding, Experience, Minimalist

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

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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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

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• To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

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  Passion, Age, Aging

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

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• Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophy

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• Those who write clearly have readers.

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  Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

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• Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

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  Inspirational, Believe, Anime

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• The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

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  Happiness, Ambition, Air

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• Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

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  Self, Giving, Solitude

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• Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

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  Simple, People

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• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

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  Psychology, Ideology, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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  Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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  Life, Dying, Causes

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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  Experience Yourself, Justice, Soul

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

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  Order, Trying, Seems

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

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• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

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• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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  Inspirational, Work, Passion

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