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Men Quotes by Albert Camus

163 Men quotes by Albert Camus

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A thought about being good but getting rich is presented. The quotes say true happiness comes from within, not from waiting for a man to arrive, and that a better world is unified rather than merely different. They describe revolt as a constant fight, and note that courage can dip at a certain hour.

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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

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There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

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Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

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Fate is not in man but around him

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There are more things to admire in men then to despise.

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So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of…

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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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

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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very…

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If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the…

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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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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds…

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The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed…

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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there…

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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to…

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The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful…

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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be…

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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,…

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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make…

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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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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls…

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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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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that…

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My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were…

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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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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class…

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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than…

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Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's…

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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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Men die and they are not happy.

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In order to exist, man must rebel.

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“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not…

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as…

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he…

“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave…

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it…

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…