Albert Camus Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

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  Peace, War, Winning

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

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  Hero, Passion, Live In The Present

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• More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

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  Men, Individuality, Trying

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

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• Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

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  Greater

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

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• I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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  Accepting, Made, Incapable

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

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• but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

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  Should

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Return

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• Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

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  Thinking Of You, Thinking, Wells

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

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  Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

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  Happiness, Son, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.122, Vintage

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• He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

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  Heart, Sublime, Indifference

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• The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

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  Thinking, Make You Think, Important

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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  Order, Atheism, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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• Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

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  Forgotten, Used, Martyr

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• what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

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  Stronger, Makes You Stronger

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• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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  Two, Long, Goal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

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  Character, Men, History

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.221, Vintage

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• We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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  Life, Personality, Shapes

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

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• Morality, when formal, devours.

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  Perseverance, Morality, Formal

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• The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

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  Dog, Powerful, Men

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• I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

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  Country, Justice, Able

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.5, Vintage

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• Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!

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  Suicide, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

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  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.41, Vintage

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• When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

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  People, Giving, Miracle

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