Quotes by Albert Camus

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956)

Lived from: 1913 - 1960

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 7 november 1913 Died: 4 january 1960

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  • In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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  • In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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  • Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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  • Integrity has no need of rules.
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  • It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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  • It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
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  • It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it, just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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  • It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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  • It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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  • It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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  • Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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  • Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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  • Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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  • Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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  • Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
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  • Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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  • Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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  • Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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  • Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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  • More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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