Albert Camus quotes - page 11

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. (Albert Camus)
At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort. View quote
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. View quote
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. View quote
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. View quote
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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! View quote
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this? View quote
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Of course, I had to own that he was right; I didn't feel much regret for what I'd done. Still, to my mind, he overdid it, and I'd have liked to have a chance of explaining to him, in a quite friendly, almost affectionate way, that I have never been able to really regret anything in all my life. I've always been far too much absorbed in the present moment, or the immediate future, to think back. View quote
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To work and create "for nothing," to sculpture in clay, to know one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries - this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, it the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors. View quote
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In the end, man is not entirely guilty - he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent - he continues it. View quote
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Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love. (Albert Camus)
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. View quote
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. View quote
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. View quote
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Some cry Love me Others Dont love me But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries Dont love me and be faithful to me. View quote
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Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. View quote
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. View quote
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. View quote
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When the body is sad, the heart languishes. View quote
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. View quote
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. (Albert Camus)
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion. View quote
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False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones. View quote
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing. View quote
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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. View quote
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