Albert Camus Quotes - Page 4

• Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

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  Art, People, Imagination

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• I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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  Men, Justice, Trying

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• Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

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  Forever, Psychology, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

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  Eye, People, Giving

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• Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

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  Heart, Faces, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• There is no shame in preferring happiness.

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  Shame

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

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  Punishment, Death Penalty, Murder

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

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  Memories, Regret, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

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• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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• Liberty is dangerous.

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  Liberty, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

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  Real, Prophet, Century

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• To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Should

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

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• Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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  Life, Truth, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

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  Happiness And Love, Made, Perceive

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  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

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  Essence, Innocence, Nostalgia

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage

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• We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

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  Evil, Hungry, Heal

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• After awhile you could get used to anything.

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  Used

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

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• The innocent is the person who explains nothing

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  Life, Innocence, Innocent

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

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• We all have a weakness for beauty.

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  Weakness

  "The First Man". Book by Albert Camus, 1994.

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• Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

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  Mean, Feelings, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

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  No Hope

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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

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  Feet, Intelligence, Mind

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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  Retirement, Mediocrity, Mediocre

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.82, Vintage

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• It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

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  Unity, World, Principles

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• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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  Knowledge, Creativity, Ideas

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