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Albert Camus Quotes

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God’s will ours Picture Quote #1

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L’Illustration. Something desperate, you know Picture Quote #1

The one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing} Picture Quote #1

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then Picture Quote #1

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society Picture Quote #1

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action Picture Quote #1

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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom Picture Quote #1

But it’s not easy. I’ve been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn’t Picture Quote #1

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today Picture Quote #1

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy Picture Quote #1

Some cry: ‘Love me!!’ Others: ‘Don’t love me!!’ But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: ‘Don’t love me and be faithful to me!!’ Picture Quote #1

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds Picture Quote #1

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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art Picture Quote #1

What’s natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention Picture Quote #1

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him Picture Quote #1

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? Picture Quote #1

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, ‘less Picture Quote #1

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die Picture Quote #1

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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that God is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men Picture Quote #1

From Pandora’s Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself Picture Quote #1

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God Picture Quote #1

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur Picture Quote #1

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin Picture Quote #1

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine Picture Quote #1

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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man Picture Quote #1

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage Picture Quote #1

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world Picture Quote #1

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love Picture Quote #1

We can’t do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back Picture Quote #1

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question Picture Quote #1

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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God’s will ours (Albert Camus Quotes) I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L’Illustration. Something desperate, you know (Albert Camus Quotes) The one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing} (Albert Camus Quotes) Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then (Albert Camus Quotes) The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society (Albert Camus Quotes) The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action (Albert Camus Quotes) Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom (Albert Camus Quotes) But it’s not easy. I’ve been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn’t (Albert Camus Quotes) Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today (Albert Camus Quotes) The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy (Albert Camus Quotes) Some cry: ‘Love me!!’ Others: ‘Don’t love me!!’ But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: ‘Don’t love me and be faithful to me!!’ (Albert Camus Quotes) The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds (Albert Camus Quotes) On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art (Albert Camus Quotes) What’s natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention (Albert Camus Quotes) If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him (Albert Camus Quotes) To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? (Albert Camus Quotes) The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, ‘less (Albert Camus Quotes) I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die (Albert Camus Quotes) For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that God is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men (Albert Camus Quotes) From Pandora’s Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself (Albert Camus Quotes) History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God (Albert Camus Quotes) Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur (Albert Camus Quotes) [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin (Albert Camus Quotes) The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine (Albert Camus Quotes) There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. (Albert Camus Quotes) We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. (Albert Camus Quotes) All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. (Albert Camus Quotes) To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. (Albert Camus Quotes) We can’t do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back. (Albert Camus Quotes) Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question (Albert Camus Quotes)

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