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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 10

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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Friendship, Kindness, Compassion

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Country, Travel, Boredom

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.43, Vintage

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

Stronger, Makes You Stronger

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

Happiness And Love, Principles, Refuse

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Happiness, Time, Long

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.43, Vintage

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Thinking, Consciousness, Sisyphus

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Liberty, World, Conquer

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

War, Men, Ideas

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.114, Vintage

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Love, Life, Occupation

Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Turning Your Back, Life Is, Ifs

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Men, Want, Eras

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.191, Vintage

People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

Love, Thinking, People

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.33, Vintage

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Children, Numbers, World

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Heart, Giving, Forever

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

Men, Feelings, Mind

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.17, Vintage

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

Eye, Skills, People

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.61, Vintage

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Family First, Poverty, Firsts

It is better to burn than to disappear.

Disappear

Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Lying, Heart, Facts

"What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Art, Design, Triumph

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.97, Vintage

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Mean, Fighting, Common Decency

Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Art, Hipster, Needs

Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

Eye, Blue, Sky

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.20, Vintage

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Stars, Night, Sky

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