Albert Camus Quotes - Page 7

• To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

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  Men, Matter, Life Is

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.21, Vintage

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• I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

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  Time, Want, Littles

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1946.

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• Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

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  Thinking

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

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  Sensible, Stills

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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  Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

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  Imagination, Made, Myth

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

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• An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

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  Inspiration, Achievement, Bondage

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• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

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  Art, Pain, Lying

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• In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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  Order, Atheism, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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  Music, Dream, Appreciation

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• Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

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  Suicide, Night, Bad Night

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• Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

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  Love Is, Vanity, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• The act of love is a confession.

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  Love Is, Confession, Acts Of Love

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• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

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  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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  Love, Beauty, Time

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

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• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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  Art, Responsibility, Men

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

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• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

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  Earth, Paradise, Gender

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• A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

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  Jobs, Be Who You Are, Dignity

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• I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

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  Life, World, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

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  Order, Strict, Strict Rules

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

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• Art does not tolerate reason.

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  Art, Doe, Reason

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• Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

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  Art, Giving, Art Is

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• Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

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  Men, Two, Ministry

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

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• The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

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  Inspirational, Order, Effort

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

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

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  Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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