Albert Camus Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Men, Suffering, Cry

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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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• 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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• 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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• Art does not tolerate reason.

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  Art, Doe, Reason

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• We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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  Relationship, Money

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

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

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  Life, Suicide, Philosophy

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

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  Earth, Paradise, Gender

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• Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Men

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