Quotes by Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning o — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at t — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authe — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreig — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium de — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me- — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the rep — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays