Albert Camus Quotes - Page 9

• To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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  Mean, Knows

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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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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

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  Beauty, Art, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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

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  Cynical, Political, Democracy

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• 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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• A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

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  Doe, Masterpiece

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• Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

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  Suicide, Night, Bad Night

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• Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

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  Men, Free Man

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• To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

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  Men, Matter, Life Is

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.21, Vintage

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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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• To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

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  Fate, Giving, Shapes

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

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  Youth, Possibility, Collections

  Albert Camus (2013). “The First Man”, p.225, Penguin UK

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

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  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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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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• Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

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  Marriage, Hair, Numbers

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• We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

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  World, Weight, Infinite

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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

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  Inspiration, Achievement, Bondage

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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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• 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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• It is easier to kill what we do not know.

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  Easier, Knows

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• I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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  Sky, Feelings, Harmony

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• A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

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  Believe, Nihilism, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.69, 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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