Albert Camus Quotes
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.
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Some are created to love, while the others – to live.
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
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The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.