Albert Camus quotes - page 3

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself. (Albert Camus)
I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine. View quote
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One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. View quote
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Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself. View quote
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. View quote
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. View quote
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The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. View quote
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. View quote
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I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone. View quote
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. View quote
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It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the "why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. (Albert Camus)
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. View quote
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. View quote
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. View quote
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We all have a weakness for beauty. View quote
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We are all special cases. View quote
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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object. View quote
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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. View quote
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. View quote
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. View quote
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. (Albert Camus)
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. View quote
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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. View quote
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The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue. View quote
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. View quote
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