Albert Camus Quotes

Albert Camus Quote: If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

We all have a weakness for beauty.

Albert Camus (The First Man)

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus (A Happy Death, 1971)

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Albert Camus (The Rebel, 1951)

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Albert Camus (Remarks on the aftermath of Hiroshima, 1945)

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Albert Camus (The Rebel, 1951)

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942)

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

Albert Camus

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Albert Camus (A Happy Death, 1971)

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Albert Camus (The Rebel, 1951)

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Albert Camus (Between Hell and Reason)

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus (The Rebel, 1951)

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

Albert Camus (The Fall, 1956)

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus (The Fall, 1956)

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

Albert Camus

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Albert Camus (The Fall, 1956)

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus (The Rebel, 1951)

There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942)

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus (A Happy Death, 1971)

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942)

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Albert Camus (The Rebel, 1951)

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.

Albert Camus (Caligula, 1944)


Albert Camus Quote: One recognizses ones course by discovering the paths...

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942)

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

Albert Camus (The Fall, 1956)

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

Albert Camus (The Stranger, 1942)

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Albert Camus (A Happy Death, 1971)

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Albert Camus (Review in Alger Républicain, 1938)

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

Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942)

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus (Return to Tipasa, 1952)

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Albert Camus Biography

Born: November 7, 1913
Died: January 4, 1960

Albert Camus was a French author, journalist and philosopher. He is widely known for his key role in existentialism.

Notable Works

The Stranger (1942)
The Myth of Sisyphus
(1942)
The Plague
(1947)
The Rebel
(1951)
The Fall (1956)
A Happy Death (1971)

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