Albert Camus Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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  People, Causes, Innocent

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• The innocent is the person who explains nothing

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  Life, Innocence, Innocent

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

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• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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  Truth, Essentials, Firsts

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

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• When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

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  No Hope

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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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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

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  Thinking, Atheism, Habit

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• A loveless world is a dead world.

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  World, Loveless

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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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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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

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  Feet, Intelligence, Mind

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

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  Time, Want, Littles

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1946.

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• Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

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  Forever, Psychology, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, 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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• 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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• When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

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  Secret, Tears, Looks

  "Happy Death".

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• A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

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  Happiness, Money, Taken

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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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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• 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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• Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

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  Heart, Faces, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

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  Heart, Stubborn, Human Heart

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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  Relationship, Money

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

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  Punishment, Death Penalty, Murder

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

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  Essence, Innocence, Nostalgia

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage

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• The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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