Albert Camus Quotes About Study

• I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

  Albert Camus

  Giving Up, Ambition, Upset

• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

• These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Facts, Study

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.3, Vintage

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