Albert Camus Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

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  Character, Wonder, Crime

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

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• I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

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  Men, Vices, Would Be

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.265, Vintage

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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 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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• No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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  People, Causes, Innocent

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

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  Dream

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.97, Vintage

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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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• Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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  Order, Essentials, Should

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.69, Vintage

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

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Return

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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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• 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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• 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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• Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

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  Memories, Mean, Moments

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• All I know of morality I learned from football

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  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

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  Temptation, Intelligence, Cynicism

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

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• There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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  Unjust, Never Change, Lows

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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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• 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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• Morality, when formal, devours.

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  Perseverance, Morality, Formal

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