Albert Camus Freedom Quotes

#1. Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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#2. The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

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#3. The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future.
Henceforth this is the reason for my inner freedom.

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#4. Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation
to death - and I refuse suicide.

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#5. Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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#6. Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we must utter, not words of regret, but words of hope, of the dreadful hope of men isolated with their fate.

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#7. Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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#8. On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

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#9. Therefore there is only one form of freedom for Stirner, "my power," and only
one truth, "the magnificent egotism of the stars.

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#10. Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

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#11. I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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#12. I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

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#13. One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

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#14. There is a certain freedom of enjoyment that defines true civilization. And the Spanish are among the few peoples in Europe who are civilized.

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#15. They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.

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#16. They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

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#17. Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

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#18. Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences - all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

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#19. Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

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#20. Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

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#21. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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#22. Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom

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#23. Unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

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#24. But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

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#25. The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

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#26. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

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

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#28. The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from ourselves and from others, as in that other patient truth which proceeds from death to death.

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#29. There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

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#30. Without freedom there is no art.

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#31. Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

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#32. Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

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#33. Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

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#34. After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

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#35. A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

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#36. To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.

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