Albert Camus Quotes - Page 14

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

  Albert Camus

  History, Finals, Analysis

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

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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.

  Albert Camus

  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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• Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

  Albert Camus

  Proof, Begin Again, Persons

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

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• Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

  Albert Camus

  Heroism, Difficult

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Years, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.62, Vintage

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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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• If the world were clear, art would not exist.

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  Art, Design, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

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  Able, Conscious, My Time

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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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• I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

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  Life, Men, Deeds

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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

  Albert Camus

  Interesting, Trials, Docks

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• It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

  Albert Camus

  Facts, Well Known, Homeland

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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• One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

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  People, Leader, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.182, Vintage

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• In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

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  Facts, Serious, Speak

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.176, Vintage

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• Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Teaching, Lectures

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• 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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  Government, Effort, Leader

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• Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

  Albert Camus

  Thinking Of You, Thinking, Wells

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

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  Wisdom, Justice, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.288, Vintage

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• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Cities

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Body, Illusion

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

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• Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

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  Love Is, Vanity, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

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  Greatness, Trying, Way

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

  Albert Camus

  Should

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

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  Sleep, Men, Speaks Out

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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