Albert Camus Quotes - Page 7

• We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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  Impossible, Turns

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

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• I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

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  Sky, Lasts, Knows

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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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• You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

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  Notion, Knows, Exaggerated

  "The Stranger".

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• Art does not tolerate reason.

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  Art, Doe, Reason

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• Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

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  Thinking

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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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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• Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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  Violence

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• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

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  Intelligence, Gains, Intensity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

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• At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

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  Pain, Suffering, Levels

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.7, Vintage

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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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• 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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• It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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  Funny, Spiritual, Witty

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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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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• The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

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  Life, Suicide, Philosophy

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• But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

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  Sometimes

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.54, Vintage

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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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• Fate is not in man but around him

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  Fate, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.143, Vintage

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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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• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

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  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, 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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• 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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• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

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  Earth, Paradise, Gender

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• I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

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  Dream, People, Elsewhere

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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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