Albert Camus Quotes - Page 9

• You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

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  Mistake, Men, Waiting

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.108, 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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• Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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  Violence

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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  Order, Solitude, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

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  Men, Two, Ministry

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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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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• ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

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  Life, Death, Respect

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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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• To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

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  Flower, Hands, Separation

  Albert Camus (1961). “The Outsider”

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• A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

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  Jobs, Be Who You Are, Dignity

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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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• Those who write clearly have readers.

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  Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

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• The act of love is a confession.

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  Love Is, Confession, Acts Of Love

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• No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

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  Sea, Promise, Matter

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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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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• In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

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  Art, Experts, Painting

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• For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

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  Hands, Sky, People

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

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  Moments, Life Time, Carrie

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.13, Vintage

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• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

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  Sea, Luxury, Poverty

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

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  Inspiration, Achievement, Bondage

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• Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

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  Men, Silence, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.28, Vintage

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• A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

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  Men, Independence, Craving

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.25, Vintage

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• Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

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  Friendship, Kindness, Compassion

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• You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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  Rich, Poor, Trade

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• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Faces

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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