Albert Camus Quotes - Page 7

• Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

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  Mean, Feelings, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

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  Solitude, Poverty, Values

  "Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

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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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• There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

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  Struggle, Passion, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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  Sky, Feelings, Harmony

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• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

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  Art, Mistake, Thinking

  "Happy Death".

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• A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

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  Doe, Masterpiece

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• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

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  Earth, Paradise, Gender

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• Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

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  Men, Wander, Anxious

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.105, Vintage

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• To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

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  Fate, Giving, Shapes

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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  Mean, Knows

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• A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

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  Believe, Nihilism, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.69, Vintage

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• And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

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  World, Felt, Detached

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.75, Vintage

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• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

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  People, Suffering, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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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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• We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

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  Tasks, World, Crime

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• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

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  Memories, Humility, Shining

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• the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

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  Winning, Play

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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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• I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

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  Selfishness, Continuity, Day To Day

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• What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

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  Lying, Mean, Two

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

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• I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

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  Race, Hands, No Friends

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• Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

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  Marriage, Hair, Numbers

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• The truth, as the light, makes blind.

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  Light, Blind

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