Albert Camus Quotes - Page 13

• When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Body, Languish

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.42, Vintage

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• With rebellion, awareness is born

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  Awareness, Rebellion, Born

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.15, Vintage

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• I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

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  Eye, Blue, Sky

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.20, Vintage

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• Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Mistress

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• To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

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  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

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• Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

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  Imagination, Made, Myth

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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  Heroism, Difficult

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• ...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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  Art, Culture, Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

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  Culture, Firsts, Dictatorship

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.95, Vintage

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• There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

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  Helping Others, People, World

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• The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

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  Heaven, Kind, Life Is

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

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  Silence, Calamity, Plague

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

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  Friendship, Honesty, Believe

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• Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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  Order, Practice, Generosity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

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  Heart, Echoes, Absurdity Of Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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

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  Eye, Fate, People

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

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• What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

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  Two, Years, Matter

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• History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

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  History, Finals, Analysis

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.289, Vintage

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• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

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  Men, Luck, Energy

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

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  Happiness, Choices, Desire

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.118, Vintage

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• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Years

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

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  Feelings, Needs, Way

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.65, Vintage

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• One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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  Struggle, Imagine, Flakes

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942)

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• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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  Truth, Essentials, Firsts

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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