Albert Camus Quotes - Page 12

• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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  Love, Beauty, Time

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

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  Lying, Three, Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.119, Vintage

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• The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Lectures

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• The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

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  Life, Taken, Discovery

  Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.

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• ... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

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  Want, Return, Stranger

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• I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

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  Stars, Night, Sky

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• 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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  4th Of July, Media, Be Good

  "TV news crisis needs a radical solution" by Richard Tait, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

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  Art, Men, Lasts

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• Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

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  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• ... 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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  Marriage, Freedom, Believe

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• Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

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  Kissing, Fire, Trying

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

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  Running, Distance, Long

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

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  World, Absurd, Refuge

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• It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

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  Art, Struggle, Artist

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• There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

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  War, Men, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.114, Vintage

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• Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

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  Eye, Skills, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.61, Vintage

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• Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

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  Work

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• The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

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  Summer, Winter, Invincible Summer

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• Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

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  Interesting, Trials, Docks

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• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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  Art, Hipster, Needs

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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  Law, Punishment, Intuition

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• There is no frontier between being and appearing.

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  Frontiers, Appearing

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

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• Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

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  Happiness, Doe, Destruction

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• Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

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  Sensible, Stills

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

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  Thinking, Consciousness, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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