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We turn our backs on nature; ...

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

What’s true of all the evils ...

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 1179 quotes

At the heart of all beauty li...

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

When the imagination sleeps, ...

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

He had been bored, that's all...

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Those who prefer their princi...

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

The aim of art, the aim of a ...

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Love cannot accept what it is...

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

I always found misogyny vulga...

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

I can feel this heart inside ...

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

I looked up at the mass of si...

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Thinking is learning all over...

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

On the ridge where the great ...

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 1179 quotes

Believe me, the hardest thing...

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

I said that the world is absu...

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Truth and freedom, having few...

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Fancy language, like poplin, ...

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Men are never convinced of yo...

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Ah cher ami, how poor in inve...

Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

In the world there is, parall...

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

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