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  • The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage
  • Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage
  • It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

    ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”
  • The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

  • Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.125, Vintage
  • Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

  • The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

    Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.83, Vintage
  • You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

  • Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

    "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.
  • Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage
  • Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

    Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”
  • We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.

  • ... 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.

  • I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

    Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)
  • The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  • Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

  • To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

  • The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

    Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”
  • The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage
  • Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

    Albert Camus (2012). “Exile and the Kingdom”, p.129, Vintage
  • Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage
  • Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.86, Vintage
  • Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage
  • Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

  • What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

    Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”
  • Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage
  • There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

    "Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.
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Albert Camus quotes about: Acting Adventure Age Aging Alienation Anxiety Art Atheism Atheist Attitude Balance Beach Beauty Being Happy Belief Birth Bitterness Books Boredom Brothers Capital Punishment Certainty Chaos Character Children Choices Clarity Community Compassion Confession Conformity Consciousness Country Courage Creation Creativity Crime Criticism Culture Cynicism Darkness Death Death Penalty Design Desire Destiny Dignity Discipline Divorce Dogs Doubt Drama Dreams Duty Dying Earth Effort Emotions Energy Ethics Evil Excuses Exile Existentialism Experience Eyes Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Flowers Football Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Funeral Future Generosity Genius Giving Giving Up God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greek Guilt Habits Happiness Happiness And Love Happy Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heaven Heroism History Home Honesty Hope House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Idealism Ideology Imagination Independence Injustice Innocence Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Killing Knowledge Labor Language Liberty Life Life And Death Live Life Logic Loss Love Love Life Luck Lying Madness Mankind Meaning Of Life Meetings Memories Mistakes Money Morality Morning Mothers Motivational Myth Nature Nihilism Nostalgia Office Pain Painting Parties Passion Peace Personality Philosophy Politics Poverty Power Prisons Progress Protest Psychology Purpose Quality Reality Rebellion Regret Relationships Religion Responsibility Retirement Revolution Risk Running Sacrifice Saints Selfishness Separation Shame Silence Simplicity Sin Slaves Sleep Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Success Suffering Summer Teachers Time Today Torture Tragedy Truth Twilight Unity Universe Values Violence Virtue Vocation Waiting Wall War Weakness Winning Winter Wisdom Work Writing