Albert Camus Quotes
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I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
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The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
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Without work all life goes rotten.
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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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I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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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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It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.
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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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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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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.