Albert Camus Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• With rebellion, awareness is born

  Albert Camus

  Awareness, Rebellion, Born

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

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• Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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  Heroism, Difficult

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

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  Proof, Begin Again, Persons

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

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  Men, Years, Two

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

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

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  Facts, Well Known, Homeland

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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

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  Life, Mean, Cities

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

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

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  Heart, Body, Illusion

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

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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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• I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

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  Stupid, Men, Doe

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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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• People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

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  Love, Thinking, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.33, Vintage

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• The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

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  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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