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“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”

Albert Camus book The Stranger

The Stranger (1942)

“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”

Albert Camus book A Happy Death

A Happy Death (1971)

“Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.”

Albert Camus

"The Sea Close By" in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)

“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else’s blood. That is why some of our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.”

Albert Camus

Toute idée fausse finit dans le sang, mais il s'agit toujours du sang des autres. C'est ce qui explique que certains de nos philosophes se sentent à l'aise pour dire n'importe quoi.
Actuelles I, 1950

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“With rebellion, awareness is born.”

Albert Camus book The Rebel

As quoted in The Estranged God : Modern Man's Search for Belief (1966) by Anthony T. Padovano, p. 109
The Rebel (1951)

“I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.”

Albert Camus

Attributed to Camus on social media, this sentence was taken from the Wikipedia article on Camus: "In Le Mythe, dualism becomes a paradox: we value our own lives in spite of our mortality and in spite of the universe's silence. While we can live with a dualism (I can accept periods of unhappiness, because I know I will also experience happiness to come), we cannot live with the paradox (I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless)." Retrieved 16 July 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#Ideas_on_the_absurd
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“There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

Kirilov
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“A fate is not a punishment.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus

“Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus

“A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.
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The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.”

Albert Camus book The Rebel

La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
Part 5: Thought at the Meridian (p. 313)
The Rebel (1951)

“Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory…Everything is forgotten, even great love.”

Albert Camus book A Happy Death

A Happy Death (1971)

“The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

Absurd Walls
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”

Albert Camus book The Stranger

[I]l me restait peu de temps. Je ne voulais pas le perdre avec Dieu.
The Stranger (1942)