Albert Camus — Quote from Notebooks 1935-1942
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
Notebooks 1935-1942 (1962)
Concepts: love, loneliness, meaning
Resonant Quotes
- “Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir, All Said and Done These quotes form a perfect philosophical harmony, both rejecting the deferral of authentic living and asserting that...
- “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Both quotes articulate a philosophy of radical presentness, with Woolf emphasizing creative arrangement of immediate ...
- “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certain...” — Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace Camus's present-focused generosity and Havel's outcome-independent hope both reject future-obsessed activism in favor...
- “For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty ov...” — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Both Mann and Camus identify love as the supreme ethical imperative that transcends mortality and absurdity—love as h...
- “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothin...” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Both philosophers advocate total commitment to the present moment—Nietzsche through accepting all of eternity as it i...
- “The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant....” — Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless Both thinkers challenge the deferral of meaning to some distant future, insisting instead that authentic existence an...
- “Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity re...” — Rollo May, The Courage to Create Both quotes understand authentic creation as requiring total commitment to the immediate moment, with Camus's 'giving...
- “The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” — James Joyce, Ulysses Both quotes unite present action with future consequence, Joyce emphasizing how deeds reveal authentic thought while ...