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Humans Quotes by Albert Camus

52 Humans quotes by Albert Camus

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A man who says he would crush anything that blocks his desire shows Camus’s view of human drive. The quotes discuss how people try to deny the absurdity of life while also feeling a deep urge to revolt. They also warn that treating humans as tools of power can turn them into assassins.

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There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

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Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

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

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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

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And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

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The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

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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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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

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... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or…

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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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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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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

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One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,…

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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost,…

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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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What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance…

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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can…

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Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such…

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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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He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which…

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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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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

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Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books…

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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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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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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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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

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Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel.…

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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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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,…

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I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they…

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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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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive…

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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to…

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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…