Albert Camus quotes page 1

1913-1960, French author and philosopher

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk
beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
Albert Camus

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do
as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that
all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must
lead to universal annihilation.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
Albert Camus

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize
that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus

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

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert Camus

We are all born mad, some remain so.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the
midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
Albert Camus

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Albert Camus

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity
that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus

Let's not beat around the bush - I love life. That's my real weakness. I love it so much that I
am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly
defined.
Albert Camus

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and
we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
Albert Camus

Culture: The cry of men in face of their destiny.
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A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be
anything but bad.
Albert Camus

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