Albert Camus Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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  Mean, Creating, Order

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• Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

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  World, One Love

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

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• If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

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  Believe, Importance, Ifs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.5, Vintage

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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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• After awhile you could get used to anything.

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  Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.77, Vintage

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• Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

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  Men, Suffering, Cry

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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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• Life should be lived to the point of tears

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  Tears, Should

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• There is no love of life without despair of life.

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  Love Life, Despair, No Love

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

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  Judging, Guilt, Comfort

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• Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

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  Inspirational, Charming Smile, Asking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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  Rich, Poor, Trade

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• If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

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  Happiness And Love, Made, Perceive

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• That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

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  Mean, Ideas, Wonderful

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• Liberty is the right not to lie.

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  Lying, Liberty

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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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• 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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• The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

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  Revenge, Best Revenge

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• Having money is a way of being free of money.

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  Money, Being Free, Way

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

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• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

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• The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

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  Real, Prophet, Century

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• Integrity has no need of rules.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

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  Believe, Men, Track

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

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• A fate is not a punishment.

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  Fate, Punishment

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.75, Vintage

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