Albert Camus Quotes
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I rebel - therefore we exist.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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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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'This is the truth,' we say. 'You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.'
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
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This is the century of fear.
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I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
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Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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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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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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We are condemned to live together.
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When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.