Albert Camus Quotes

Dedicated to Albert Camus. / Also @philosophors / By @remvze

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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”

— Albert Camus

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“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.”

— Albert Camus

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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

— Albert Camus

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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”

— Albert Camus

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“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

— Albert Camus

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin

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“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

— Albert Camus

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“Art and revolt will die only with the last man.”

— Albert Camus

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“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”

— Albert Camus

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“My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.”

— Albert Camus

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"We're not sure, we can't be sure. Otherwise, there would be a solution; at least one could get oneself taken seriously."

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"In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly."

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"Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."

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"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

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"Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom."

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"The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order."

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"I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't."

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"The act of love... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself."

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