Albert Camus Quotes About Love

• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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  Love, Beauty, Time

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

• Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Intelligent, Doe

• People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

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  Love, Thinking, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.33, Vintage

• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Men, Precious Stones

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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  Love, Principles, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.129, Vintage

• My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

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  Love, Life, Occupation

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

• The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

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  Love, Selfish, Vanity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage

• That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

  Albert Camus

  Love, Sacrifice, Giving

• After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Silence, One Day

• For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

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  Love, Luck, Misfortunes

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

• Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

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  Love, Faith, Unhappy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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  Love, Desire, Possession

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

• I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

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  Love, Great Love, Objects

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.58, Vintage

• [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Intelligent, Stupidity

• Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Dream, Country

• Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Separation, Pity

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