Albert Camus Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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

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  Next, This Life

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

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• There is no shame in preferring happiness.

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  Shame

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• Life is the result of all your choices.

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  Choices, Life Is, Results

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

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  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.

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  Memories, Regret, Believe

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Those who write clearly have readers.

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  Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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  Dying, Reason, Excellent

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

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  Art, People, Imagination

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• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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  Knowledge, Creativity, Ideas

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• Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

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  Passion, Truth Is, Virtue

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

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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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• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

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  Psychology, Ideology, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

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• There is only one class of men, the privileged class

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  Men, Class, Privileged

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

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  Ideas, Knows, Exaggerated

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.49, Hamilton Books

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• We all have a weakness for beauty.

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  Weakness

  "The First Man". Book by Albert Camus, 1994.

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

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  Lying, Years, Leader

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

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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.

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  Heart, Waiting, Solitude

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

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