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There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

Albert Camus
Eye, Fate, People
Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Albert Camus
Fate, Giving, Shapes
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

Fate is not in man but around him

Albert Camus
Fate, Men
Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.143, Vintage

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Albert Camus
Crush, Heart, Fate
Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

Albert Camus
Art, Fate, Differences

A fate is not a punishment.

Albert Camus
Fate, Punishment
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.75, Vintage

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus
Change, Fate, Destiny
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

Albert Camus
Struggle, Fate, Darkness
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

Albert Camus
Passion, Fate, Reflection
Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.41, Vintage

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

Albert Camus
Fate, Men, Joy
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

Albert Camus
Fate, Tasks, Rare Moments
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Albert Camus
Fate, Greatness, Destiny
Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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