Quotes by Albert Camus

About Albert Camus:

Albert Camus was a French Nobel Prize–winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for an...

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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

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From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same asto...

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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

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Nell'esperienza assurda, la sofferenza è individuale. A prinicipiare dal moto di rivolta, essa ha coscienza di essere collettiva, è avventura di tutti. Il primo progresso di uno spirito intimamente straniato sta dunque nel riconoscere che questo su...

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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.

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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.

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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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O absurdo é essencialmente um divórcio. Não está num nem outro dos elementos comparados. Nasce do seu confronto.

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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

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The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.

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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 is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls t...

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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

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It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful.

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It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other. I ask for the rule— of life of that state, and what I am offered negl...

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Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize t...

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Author Bio

  • NameAlbert Camus
  • DescriptionFrench author and journalist
  • BornNovember 7, 1913
  • DiedJanuary 4, 1960
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Philosopher; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist; Playwright
  • WorksThe Rebel; A Happy Death; The Fall
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature