World Quotes by Albert Camus

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

— Albert Camus

A loveless world is a dead world.

— Albert Camus

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

— Albert Camus

“The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much.”

— Albert Camus

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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If the world were clear, art would not exist.

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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…

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

— Albert Camus

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

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“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.”

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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the…

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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

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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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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of…

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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for…

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The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling…

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In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much…

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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a…

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Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and,…

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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists…

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It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit,…

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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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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the…

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But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality…

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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what…

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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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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts…

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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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I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to…

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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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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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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if…

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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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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

— Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

— Albert Camus