Albert Camus Quotes

• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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  Freedom, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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  Love, Friendship, Happy

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• Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

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  Life Is, Worth Living, Meaningless

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• My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

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  Summer, Wisdom, Hate

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• Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

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  Decisions You Make, Choices Made, Today

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  Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

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  Giving, Unloved, Misfortunes

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

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  Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

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

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• Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

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  Hope, No Hope

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  There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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  Gratitude, Night, Shadow

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.123, Vintage

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• The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

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  Realization, Life Is, Absurd

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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  Experience Yourself, Justice, Soul

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• The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

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  Philosophical, Everyday, Important

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• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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  If There Is A God, Religion, Living My Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

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  Happiness, Ambition, Air

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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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

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• I rebel; therefore I exist.

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  Life, Rebel, Existentialism

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  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

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  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

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  Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

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  Lying, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

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  Life, Summer, Recovery

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• Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

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  Men, Want, Rich

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

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• Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

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  Self, Giving, Solitude

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• Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

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  Giving, Joy, Defeat

  "WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Fargo" by Jennifer M. Wood, www.wired.com. February 8, 2017.

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