Albert Camus Quotes - Page 12

• Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

  Albert Camus

  Work

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• One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

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  Principles, Graciousness, Bigs

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

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• There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

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  Solitude, Poverty, Values

  "Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

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• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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  Life, Mean, Cities

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

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• Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

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  Men, Every Man

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

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• Those who write clearly have readers.

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  Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

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• Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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  Country, Travel, Boredom

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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• More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

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  Men, Individuality, Trying

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

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• I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

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  Spring, Mean, Unity

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

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  Men, Evil, World

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

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  Risk, Being Loved

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• I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

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  Done, Way, Wells

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

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• You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

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  Men, Judging Yourself, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

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  Stronger, Makes You Stronger

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• In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

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  Believe, Artist, World

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

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• I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

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  Life, Regret, Thinking

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

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  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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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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• I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

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  Memories, Joy, Stranger

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

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• ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

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  Hands, Effort, Wish

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• There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

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  Men, Forever, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

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  Dog, Attachment, Owning A Pet

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.121, Vintage

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• A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

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  Happiness, Money, Taken

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

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  Dream, People, Elsewhere

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• I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

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  Cells, Desire, Would Be

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.77, Vintage

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