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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 3

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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Sleep, Insomnia, People

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Stupid, Stupidity, Way

Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

Knowledgeable Person, Ignorant, May

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Giving, Joy, Defeat

"WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Fargo" by Jennifer M. Wood, www.wired.com. February 8, 2017.

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Falling In Love, Despair, Existentialism

We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

Heart, Loss, Exercise

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Path, Discovering, Recognise

"The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Justice, Crowns, Slave

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Forever, Psychology, Logic

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

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Soul, Suffering, Too Much

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Men

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.84, Vintage

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Life, Want, Happens

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

"Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Distance, Race, Long

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Life, Order, People

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Men, Rebel, Conformity

L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Inspirational, Work, Passion

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

Heart, Faces, Wonder

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

Evil, Hungry, Heal

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

Real, Prophet, Century

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Life, Honesty, Integrity

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Peace, Humanity, Battle

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