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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 9

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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep

But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

Thinking, Should Have, Years

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Painting

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

Moon, World, Needs

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Waiting, Lasts, Judgment

"The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Ideas, People, Giving

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

No ends, simply means.

Mean, Ends

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Life, Men, Deeds

Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Order, Idealism, Live And Let Live

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Eczema, Fancy, Dishonesty

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

Death, Matter, Stranger

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

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Funny, Spiritual, Witty

Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Friendship, Honesty, Believe

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Essentials, Dimensions, Human Nature

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.277, Vintage

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

Summer, Winter, Invincible Summer

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

Eye, Fate, People

Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

Happiness, Doe, Destruction

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

Thinking, Make You Think, Important

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

Easier, Knows

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Men, Suffering, Cry

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

Doe, Masterpiece

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

People, Causes, Innocent

Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.118, Harvard University Press

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Success, Work, Punishment

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Men, Class, Privileged

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

Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!

Suicide, Sacrifice, Thinking

Those who write clearly have readers.

Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

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