Albert Camus Quotes - Page 8

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

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

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  Soul, Determined, Manage

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

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  Success, Work, Punishment

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• When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

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  Heart, Body, Languish

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.42, Vintage

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• Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

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  Death, Men, Long

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

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• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

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  Moon, World, Needs

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• Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

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  Love, Intelligent, Doe

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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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• One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

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  Principles, Graciousness, Bigs

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• We are condemned to live together.

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  Together

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.127, 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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• It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

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  Unity, World, Principles

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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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• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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  Life, Happiness, Summer

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• I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

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  Lying, Hypocrisy, Too Much

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• What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

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  Crush, Believe, Desire

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• All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

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  Simple, Judging, Sound

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

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  Gratitude, Sunlight

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• We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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  Truth, Firsts

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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  Music, Dream, Appreciation

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