Albert Camus Quotes - Page 8

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

  Albert Camus

  Success, Work, Punishment

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Liberty is dangerous.

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  Liberty, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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

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  Truth, Firsts

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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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• To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

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  Ends, Feels

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

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  Cynical, Political, Democracy

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• Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

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  Art, Giving, Art Is

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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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• One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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  Struggle, Imagine, Flakes

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942)

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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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• 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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• To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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  Mean, Knows

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• Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

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  Men, Free Man

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