Quotes by Albert Camus

Albert Camus

… habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Crime

Firsts

Murder

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… here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

God

Hate

Prayer

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… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Family

Home

Son

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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 easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

Death

Life

Respect

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… unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

Believe

Freedom

Marriage

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… We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Needs

Pain

Sweet

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…. Query: How contrive not to waste one’s time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one’s days on an uneasy chair in a dentist’s waiting-room; by remaining on one’s balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn’t know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Office

Sunday

Waiting Rooms

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…Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Art

Creation

Culture

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…he said firmly, “God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.” “Obviously,” I replied, “they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it.” I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

Liberty

Men

Want

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…the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Despair

Habit

Life

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