Albert Camus Quotes

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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

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The more I produce the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally he dies blind.

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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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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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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He said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me.

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In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

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There is not love of life without despair about life.

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The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

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

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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

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The act of love... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.

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History shows that the less people read, the more books they buy.

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