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Absurd Quotes by Albert Camus
- The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
- I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
- The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
- All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd…
- The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
- The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if…
- The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic…
- The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be…
- The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
- The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
- The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
- L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
- The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
- Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
- The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
- Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be…
- life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
- Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform…
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very…
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- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins,… — Samuel Butler
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- My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite… — Lord Byron