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“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when all this ends. For the moment I know this; there are sick people and they need curing.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The important thing . . . is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“One always finds one's burden again.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“an example is not necessarily an example to be followed”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain, but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Expression begins where thought ends.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“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.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of righting a plague is, common decency.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
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