Albert Camus Quotes (150 quotes)

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„The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.“
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„Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.“
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„There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.“
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„Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?“
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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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„Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.“
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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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„All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.“
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„We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.“
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„Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.“
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„Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.“
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„The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.“
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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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„The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.“
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„To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.“
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„In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.“
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„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.“
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„The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.“
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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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„Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.“
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Albert Camus
Author born: November 07, 1913
Author died: January 04, 1960
Nationality: French
Author Profession: Philosopher

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