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Love Quotes by Albert Camus

144 Love quotes by Albert Camus

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Albert Camus sees love as a bond that isn’t about what others do, but about what we give. He writes that desire can outlive love, making it feel like a sterile possession. He also links love with despair, saying life loses meaning when love disappears.

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There is not love of life without despair about life.

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“The loves we share with a city are often secret loves.”

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Without work all life goes rotten.

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Without freedom there is no art.

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Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

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“Love is injustice, but justice doesn't suffice.”

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Life should be lived to the point of tears

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In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

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You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

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Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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“Everyone gives much more and the receipts are considerable. Typical of American generosity. Their hospitality, their cordiality are like that too, spontaneous…

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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the…

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Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle…

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“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a…

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Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

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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…

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“A love that does not bear collision with reality is not a real love. But then the inability to love is a…

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No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as…

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“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always…

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There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of…

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The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts…

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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love…

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can…

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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead…

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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look…

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“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a…

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“He had never loved anything except what was inevitable. The people fate had imposed on him, the world as it appeared to…

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My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I…

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“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not…

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“My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I…

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“Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its…

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“What I'm sure of is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like…

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Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of…

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“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,…

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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any…

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't…

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.”

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake…

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the…