Albert Camus Quotes - Page 6

• There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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  Mean, Creating, Order

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• One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

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  Ideas, Knows, Exaggerated

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.49, Hamilton Books

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• No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

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  Gratitude, Sunlight

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• He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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  Life, Hope, Despair

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• Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

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  Believe, Men, Track

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

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• When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

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  Speaks Out, Silence, Abuse

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

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  World, Felt, Detached

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.75, Vintage

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• Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

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  Atheist

  Albert Camus, Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (2006). “Œuvres complètes”

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• You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

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  Mistake, Men, Waiting

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.108, Vintage

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• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

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  People, Suffering, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

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  Crush, Believe, Desire

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• I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

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  Sky, Lasts, Knows

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• All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

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  Simple, Judging, Sound

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

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• When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

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  Secret, Tears, Looks

  "Happy Death".

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• In order to exist, man must rebel.

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  Men, Order, Challenges

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

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  Notion, Knows, Exaggerated

  "The Stranger".

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• The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

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  Life, Suicide, Philosophy

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• Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Lying

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• Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

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  Suicide, Philosophy, Suicidal

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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  Love, Life, Deceived Us

  "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

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• I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

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  Heart, Echoes, Absurdity Of Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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• ...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

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  Life, Despair, Habit

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

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• Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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  Order, Practice, Generosity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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  Life, Happiness, Summer

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