Albert Camus Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

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  Doe, Masterpiece

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

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  Suicide, Night, Bad Night

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

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  Death, Matter, Stranger

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

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  Philosophy, Cowardice

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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

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  Easier, Knows

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• Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

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  Heart, Men, Divinity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.147, Vintage

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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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• The act of love is a confession.

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  Love Is, Confession, Acts Of Love

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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 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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• 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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• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

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  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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