"Summer in Algiers" http://books.google.com/books?id=N0bNUqDVKJgC&q=%22If+there+is+a+sin+against+life+it+consists+perhaps+not+so+much+in+despairing+of+life+as+in+hoping+for+another+life+and+in+eluding+the+implacable+grandeur+of+this+life%22&pg=PA153#v=onepage, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1955)

“Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.”

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Albert Camus livre La Peste

The Plague (1947)

“Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)

“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.”

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Albert Camus livre Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

"The Artist and His Time"
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960)

“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”

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Albert Camus livre La Chute

The Fall (1956)

“The papers were always talking about the debt owed to society. According to them, it had to be paid. But that doesn't speak to the imagination. What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Étranger

The Stranger (1942)

“This is the truth," we say. "You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.”

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Albert Camus livre La Chute

The Fall (1956)

“The artist reconstructs the world to his plan.”

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Albert Camus livre L'Homme révolté

Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)

“"I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.”

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Albert Camus livre Le Mythe de Sisyphe

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

“All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football.”

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Albert Camus

Ce que, finalement, je sais de plus sûr sur la morale et les obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. <br class="br">"Ce que je sais de plus sûr à propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au sport que je le dois", sentence parfois modifiée en : "C'est au football que je le dois !" <br class="br">As quoted by Jean Noury (November 10, 1965); published in: Archives du Sénat français, Comptes rendus des débats, Volume 4, 1965, p. 1578 (PDF page 28) http://www.senat.fr/comptes-rendus-seances/5eme/pdf/1965/11/s19651110_1551_1598.pdf

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”

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Albert Camus livre Le Mythe de Sisyphe

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning