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Albert Camus Quotes About Life

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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.

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.

Albert Camus Quotes About Happiness

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

More Quotes by Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

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... inside ourselves.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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