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Absurd Quotes by Albert Camus

54 Absurd quotes by Albert Camus

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Camus points out that the daily grind feels absurd, yet only rare moments turn it tragic. He says we convince ourselves that existence isn’t absurd, but he calls the absurd the first truth. He adds that realizing life’s absurdity is a start, not an end, and that love is a shared story shaped by books.

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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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The absurd is sin without God.

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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

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“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could…

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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

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“A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.”

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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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life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to…

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“You see, I’ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every…

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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must…

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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But…

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“To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that…

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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued…

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This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet…

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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of…

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The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice…

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“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from…

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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole…

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Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can,…

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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all…

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“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be…

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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great…

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It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the…

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In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will…

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“Likewise, if Kafka wants to express the absurd, he will make use of consistency. You know the story of the crazy man…

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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

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“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything…

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“It is a matter of persisting. At a certain point on his path the absurd man is tempted. History is not lacking…

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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to…

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There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

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“The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future. Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.”

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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

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A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

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