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

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

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

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Albert Camus
Love, Life, Occupation
Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus
Inspirational, Life, Men
Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus
Life, Time, Men
Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.106, Vintage

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus
Life, Boredom, Existential
ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus
Life, Suicide, Courage

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Albert Camus
Life, Mean, Cities
Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Albert Camus
Life, Despair, Alive

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

Albert Camus
Life, Tragedy, Easy
Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus
Life, Regret, Thinking
Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus
Life, Success, Humor
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Albert Camus
Life, May, Interest
"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Albert Camus
Inspirational, Life, Waiting
La Chute (The Fall) (1956)

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus
Life, Taken, Discovery
Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus
Life, Truth, Passion

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus
Life, No Hope, Incumbents

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Albert Camus
Life, Beauty, Lying
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus
Life, Goodness, Clear
Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus
Life, Art, Freedom
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Albert Camus
Life, Truth, Party

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Albert Camus
Life, Personality, Shapes
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus
Life, Order, Giving
Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Albert Camus
Life, Real, Weakness
Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Albert Camus
Life, Passion, Logic
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

Albert Camus
Life, Death, Respect

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