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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 5

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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Love, Intelligent, Doe

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

Soul, Determined, Manage

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Heart, Echoes, Absurdity Of Life

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

Notion, Knows, Exaggerated

"The Stranger".

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Feet, Intelligence, Mind

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

Life, Suicide, Philosophy

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

World, One Love

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

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Melancholy

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Truth, Essentials, Firsts

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

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

Beautiful, Truth, Lying

It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.

Fear, Arrows, Greed

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Time, Want, Littles

"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1946.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

Lying, Liberty

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

Tasks, World, Crime

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Impossible, Turns

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.34, Vintage

We all have a weakness for beauty.

Weakness

"The First Man". Book by Albert Camus, 1994.

Life should be lived to the point of tears

Tears, Should

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

Secret, Tears, Looks

"Happy Death".

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Mean, Feelings, Existential

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Speaks Out, Silence, Abuse

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

Next, This Life

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.46, Vintage

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

Gratitude, Sunlight

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Men, Giving, Tragedy

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

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

Crush, Believe, Desire

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