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Heart Quotes by Albert Camus

40 Heart quotes by Albert Camus

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A yearning for a loved face shows how the heart craves warmth when duty feels heavy. Camus writes that the heart is an indefinable place, holding both truth and the risk of saying more than we feel. He also suggests that not loving is a misfortune, while the body may pretend the heart can wear out.

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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

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He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

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There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

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The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

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Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

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“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is…

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The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches.…

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and…

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“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of…

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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.…

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Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep…

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What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a…

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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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I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful… He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and…

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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers,…

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From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live…

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And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed…

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We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is…

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It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the…

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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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“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of…

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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

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Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is…

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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and…

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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 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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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the…

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This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the…

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I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that…

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees…

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For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so…

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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into…

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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…