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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  • To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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  • To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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  • To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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  • To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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  • To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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  • To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
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  • To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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  • To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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  • Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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  • Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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  • Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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  • We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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  • We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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  • We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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  • We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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  • We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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  • We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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  • We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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  • We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
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  • What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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