Albert Camus Quotes - Page 9

• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

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  Ideas, People, Giving

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

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• And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

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  Wanted, Humans, Human Beings

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• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

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  Moon, World, Needs

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• I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

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  Stars, Night, Sky

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• I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

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  Life, Men, Deeds

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

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  Reality, Use, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.124, Vintage

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• Give up the tyranny of female charm.

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  Giving Up, Female, Charm

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

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  Eczema, Fancy, Dishonesty

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• We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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  Order, Idealism, Live And Let Live

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

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  People, Giving, Miracle

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• The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

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  Life, Men, Opposites

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.133, Vintage

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• Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

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  Wind, Police, Revolution

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• There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

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  Heart, Stubborn, Human Heart

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

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  Turning Your Back, Life Is, Ifs

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• Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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  Doubt, Doe, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

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• To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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  Mean, Knows

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• Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

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  Doctors, Suffering, Taught

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

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  Family First, Poverty, Firsts

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• There is no love of life without despair of life.

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  Love Life, Despair, No Love

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

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  Essentials, Dimensions, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.277, Vintage

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• There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

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  Eye, Fate, People

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

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• We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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  Truth, Firsts

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• Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

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  Waiting, Lasts, Judgment

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

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• I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

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  Stupid, Men, Doe

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• Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

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  Death, Men, Long

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

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