Albert Camus Quotes

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus

Good, Freedom, Bad

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus

Happy, Heart, Struggle

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Experience, Cannot, Create

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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Government, Nothing, Sometimes

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Truth, Essential, Absurd

Integrity has no need of rules.
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Integrity, Rules

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Sleep, Talk, While

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Motivational, Oneself, Assert

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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History, Everything, Sun

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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Happy, Others, Concerned

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

Act, Innocence, Nostalgia

What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus

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

Work, Life, Goes

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Finance, Money, Happy

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

Truth, Beautiful, Light

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

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Courage, Philosophy, Find

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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Painting, Paintings

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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Death, Law, Trying

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Mind, Sign, Vulgar

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus

Problem, Serious, Truly

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

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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Happiness, Share, Forgiven

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Truth, Nothing, Passion

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus

Inspirational, Men, Live

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7, 1913

Died: January 4, 1960

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