Albert Camus Quotes

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
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Albert Camus
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07 November, 1913
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04 January, 1960
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