Albert Camus Quotes - Page 8

• Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

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  Kissing, Fire, Trying

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• Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

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  Men, Free Man

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• When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

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  Heart, Body, Languish

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.42, Vintage

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• There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

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  Helping Others, People, World

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• All I know of morality I learned from football

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  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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• Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

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  Men, Silence, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.28, Vintage

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• Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

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  Friendship, Kindness, Compassion

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• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

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  Intelligence, Gains, Intensity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

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• I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

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  Distance, Far Away, Alienation

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• Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

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  Inspirational, Charming Smile, Asking

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

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• Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

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  Wisdom, Justice, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.288, Vintage

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• Having money is a way of being free of money.

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  Money, Being Free, Way

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

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

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  Beauty, Art, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

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  Greatness, Trying, Way

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

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

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  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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  Life, Truth, Passion

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• Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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  Violence

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• To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

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  Ends, Feels

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Love Life

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

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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  Law, Punishment, Intuition

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• Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Men

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• Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

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  Life, Tragedy, Easy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Return

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• But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Years

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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  Order, Solitude, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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