Albert Camus Quotes About Birth

• The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

  Albert Camus

  Nature, Law, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.36, Vintage

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

• The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Revolution, Birth

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