Albert Camus Quotes
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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
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... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
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Everybody knows life isn't worth living.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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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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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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