Albert Camus Quotes
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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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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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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We have art in order not to die of life.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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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 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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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
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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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The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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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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I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.