Albert Camus

Albert Camus

"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
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"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
Albert Camus Notebooks 1951-1959
"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
Albert Camus The Plague
"“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”"
Albert Camus Neither Victims Nor Executioners
"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."
Albert Camus
"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."
Albert Camus
"“My dear,In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours,Albert Camus”I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”"
Albert Camus
"“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”"
Albert Camus Notebooks 1951-1959
"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."
Albert Camus The Stranger
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"
Albert Camus
"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. Can they be brought together? This is a practical question. We must get down to it. I despise intelligence really means: I cannot bear my doubts."
Albert Camus
"Live to the point of tears."
Albert Camus
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
Albert Camus
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
Albert Camus
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
Albert Camus
"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themselves disabled, unhappy to be deprived of their unhappiness."
Albert Camus
"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."
Albert Camus
"But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive."
Albert Camus
"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
Albert Camus
"The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable"
Albert Camus
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