Albert Camus Quotes - Page 3

• You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

  Albert Camus

  Understanding, Experience, Minimalist

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

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• We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Loss, Exercise

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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

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  In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Want, Rich

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

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• It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Art, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.74, Vintage

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• A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

  Albert Camus

  Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Stupidity, Way

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Trying, Seems

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

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• People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

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• The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledgeable Person, Ignorant, May

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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• Life is the sum of your choices.

  Albert Camus

  Opportunity, Choices, Ethics

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• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

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• If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Want, Happens

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

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• If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Would Be, Needs

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• Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

  Albert Camus

  World, One Love

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

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Rebel, Conformity

  L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• 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

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• The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

  Albert Camus

  Justice, Crowns, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• Peace is the only battle worth waging.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, Humanity, Battle

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