Albert Camus Quotes - Page 3

• Integrity needs no rules.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Needs, Ethics

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

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  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

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  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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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.

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  Eye, People, Giving

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• It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

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  Time, Art, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.74, Vintage

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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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• Life is the sum of your choices.

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  Opportunity, Choices, Ethics

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  Find your happiness in yourself.

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  Happiness

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.108, 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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• We're going forward, but nothing changes.

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

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  Knowledgeable Person, Ignorant, May

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• Those who write clearly have readers.

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  Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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

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  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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

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

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  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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

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  Trying, Absurd, Existence

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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.

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  Falling In Love, Despair, Existentialism

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

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  Path, Discovering, Recognise

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

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

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  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

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  Life, Want, Happens

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

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• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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  Stupid, Stupidity, Way

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

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  Mean, Ideas, Wonderful

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