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Albert Camus Inspirational Quotes (932)

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Something must happen that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
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... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
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What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
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You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
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But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
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The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
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It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
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