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Albert Camus Quotes and Sayings

Here are our list of famous quotes by Albert Camus

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

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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

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

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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.

It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
~Albert Camus on Love.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

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

You can’t create experience. You must undergo it.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

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

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