Albert Camus quotes - page 5

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. (Albert Camus)
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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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
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Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
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Fate is not in man but around him.
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Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful. (Albert Camus)
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
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I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone-all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
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When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though the war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. (Albert Camus)
Having money is a way of being free of money.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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There is only misfortune in not being loved there is misery in not loving.
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One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
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