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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 7

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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Writing, Civilization, Purpose

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Love Is, Vanity, Two

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Inspirational, Order, Effort

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

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life, Happiness, Summer

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

Distance, Far Away, Alienation

The act of love is a confession.

Love Is, Confession, Acts Of Love

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

Thinking

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Men, Two, Ministry

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

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

"Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

Done, Way, Wells

"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

Suicide, Night, Bad Night

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Life, World, Existentialism

Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Heart, Body, Languish

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.42, Vintage

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Art, Pain, Lying

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Inspiration, Achievement, Bondage

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Order, Essentials, Should

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.69, Vintage

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Order, Strict, Strict Rules

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

Earth, Paradise, Gender

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Love, Beauty, Time

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Art, Responsibility, Men

"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Money, Being Free, Way

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

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

Kissing, Fire, Trying

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Jobs, Be Who You Are, Dignity

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Men, Silence, Needs

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.28, Vintage

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