Albert Camus Quotes

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. Art

By Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Art

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Art

By Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. Age

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of

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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life

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You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

By Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

By Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

By Albert Camus

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

By Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

By Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

By Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

By Albert Camus

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

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What is a rebel A man who says no.

By Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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We are all special cases.

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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

By Albert Camus