Albert Camus Quotes - Page 4

• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Stupidity, Way

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

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• When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

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  Soul, Suffering, Too Much

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• At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

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  Pain, Suffering, Levels

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.7, Vintage

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• To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Should

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

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• People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

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  Life, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

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• There is no shame in preferring happiness.

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  Shame

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• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

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  Intelligence, Gains, Intensity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

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  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

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  Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

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  Melancholy

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• I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

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  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Waiting, Solitude

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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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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• I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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  Men, Justice, Trying

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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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• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

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• We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

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  Evil, Hungry, Heal

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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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• 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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• Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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  Retirement, Mediocrity, Mediocre

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

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  Distance, Race, Long

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• The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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  Writing, Civilization, Purpose

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• Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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  Life, Truth, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Years

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• ...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

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  Life, Despair, Habit

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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