Albert Camus Quotes about Effort

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

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

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

Albert Camus

Hands, Effort, Wish

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Albert Camus

Government, Effort, Leader

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Albert Camus

Effort, Guilty, Virtue