Albert Camus Quotes - Page 6

• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

  Albert Camus

  Punishment, Death Penalty, Murder

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

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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 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• After awhile you could get used to anything.

  Albert Camus

  Used

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

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• Life should be lived to the point of tears

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  Tears, Should

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

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  Real, Prophet, Century

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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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• 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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