Albert Camus Quotes - Page 5

• She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

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  Heart, Waiting, Solitude

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

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  Tasks, World, Crime

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• There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

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  Struggle, Passion, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

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  Melancholy

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• Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

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  Soul, Determined, Manage

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

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• The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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  Writing, Civilization, Purpose

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• Liberty is the right not to lie.

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  Lying, Liberty

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• The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

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  Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

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  Next, This Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.46, Vintage

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• Life should be lived to the point of tears

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  Tears, Should

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• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

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  Friendship, Honesty, Believe

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• We have art in order not to die of life.

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  Art, Order, Dies

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.93, Vintage

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• A loveless world is a dead world.

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  World, Loveless

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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

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  Love, Intelligent, Doe

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• It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

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  Fear, Arrows, Greed

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• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

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  Heart, World, Chaos

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• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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  Truth, Essentials, Firsts

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Integrity has no need of rules.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

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  Men, Giving, Tragedy

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

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• I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

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  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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  Rich, Poor, Trade

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• If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

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  Believe, Importance, Ifs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.5, Vintage

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• We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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  Impossible, Turns

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.34, Vintage

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