Albert Camus Quotes - Page 3

• Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, People, Giving

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Rebel, Conformity

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

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

  Albert Camus

  Justice, Crowns, Slave

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

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• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

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  Men, Becoming, Action

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.86, Vintage

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• The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledgeable Person, Ignorant, May

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

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Fiction, Telling The Truth

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

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

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  Find your happiness in yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.108, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

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• Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

  Albert Camus

  Trying, Absurd, Existence

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• One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

  Albert Camus

  Path, Discovering, Recognise

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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• We're going forward, but nothing changes.

  Albert Camus

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• The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

  Albert Camus

  Liberty, World, Conquer

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  It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

  Albert Camus

  Falling In Love, Despair, Existentialism

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Loss, Exercise

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• To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

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  Distance, Breathing Space, Long

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• That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

  Albert Camus

  Love, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Joy, Defeat

  "WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Fargo" by Jennifer M. Wood, www.wired.com. February 8, 2017.

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• On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
  an exquisite dew falls on our heart
  and then vanishes.
  But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
  is what the heart needs.
  The earth must have risen in just such a light
  the morning the world was born.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Fall, Heart

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• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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

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• It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

  Albert Camus

  Fear, Arrows, Greed

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