Albert Camus Quotes - Page 2

• A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

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  Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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

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  Inspirational, Believe, Anime

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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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• The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

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  Justice, Crowns, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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

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  Responsibility, Privilege

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  In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

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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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• Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

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  Motivational, Change, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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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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• Peace is the only battle worth waging.

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  Peace, Humanity, Battle

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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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• 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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• Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

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  Lying, Fiction, Telling The Truth

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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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• Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

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  Men, Want, Rich

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

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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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• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

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  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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