Albert Camus Quotes - Page 6

• We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

  Albert Camus

  Impossible, Turns

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.34, Vintage

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• I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

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  Lying, Hypocrisy, Too Much

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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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• He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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  Life, Hope, Despair

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• There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

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  Men, Forever, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

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  Success, Work, Punishment

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• An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

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  Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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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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• We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

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  World, Weight, Infinite

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.210, 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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• Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

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  Youth, Possibility, Collections

  Albert Camus (2013). “The First Man”, p.225, Penguin UK

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• Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

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  Death, Men, Long

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

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• The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

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  Inspirational, Order, Effort

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

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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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• The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

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  Men, Giving, Tragedy

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

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• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

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  Heart, World, Chaos

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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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• 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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• 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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• One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

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  Principles, Graciousness, Bigs

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

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• I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

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  Life, World, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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  Men, Reason, Existence

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• When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

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  Speaks Out, Silence, Abuse

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• Liberty is the right not to lie.

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  Lying, Liberty

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• Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

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  Art, Giving, Art Is

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