Albert Camus Quotes - Page 15

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

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Return

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

  Albert Camus

  Stronger, Makes You Stronger

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Morality, when formal, devours.

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  Perseverance, Morality, Formal

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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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• For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

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  Happiness, Heart, Firsts

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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