Top 25 Quotes by Albert Camus of 985 - Page 6

A loveless world is a dead world.

World, Loveless

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

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People, Suffering, Crowds

Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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Love, Life, Deceived Us

"A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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Life, Hope, Despair

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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Life, Courage, Lying

Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

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Happiness And Love, Made, Perceive

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

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Heart, World, Chaos

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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Order, Practice, Generosity

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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

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Sky, Lasts, Knows

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

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Mistake, Men, Waiting

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.108, Vintage

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

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Believe, Men, Track

Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

Integrity has no need of rules.

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Honesty, Integrity, Needs

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

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World, Felt, Detached

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.75, Vintage

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

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Ideas, Knows, Exaggerated

Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.49, Hamilton Books

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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Rich, Poor, Trade

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

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Simple, Judging, Sound

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

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Atheist

Albert Camus, Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (2006). “Œuvres complètes”

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

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Believe, Importance, Ifs

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.5, Vintage

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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Mean, Creating, Order

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

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Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

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Intelligence, Gains, Intensity

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

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Men, Matter, Life Is

Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.21, Vintage