Albert Camus Quotes

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He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

Albert Camus
There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn.
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning.

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There is not love of life without despair about life.

Albert Camus
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.

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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.

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So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.

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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

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Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

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Somebody has to have the last word. Otherwise, every reason can be met with another one and there would never be no end to it.

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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses.

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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

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There was a time when I didn't at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

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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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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

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Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Albert Camus
Let's not beat around the bush; I love life — that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Albert Camus