Albert Camus Quotes

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Albert Camus
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Albert Camus
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
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At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
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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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
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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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If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
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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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This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
We are not certain we are never certain.
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Life is the sum of all your choices.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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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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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
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I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.
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There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
Albert Camus