Albert Camus Quotes - Page 3

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

  Albert Camus

  Motivational, Change, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

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

  Albert Camus

  Men

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

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

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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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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• 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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• It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

  Albert Camus

  Next, This Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.46, Vintage

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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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• Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

  Albert Camus

  Atheist

  Albert Camus, Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (2006). “Œuvres complètes”

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• If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Would Be, Needs

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• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Regret, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

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

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• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Stupidity, Way

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

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