Albert Camus Quotes - Page 16

• Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

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  Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

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• How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

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  Men, Bitterness, Bitter

  "Caligula: a drama in two acts".

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• There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

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  Life, Passion, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• ... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

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  Sweet, Pain, Needs

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• Life is the result of all your choices.

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  Choices, Life Is, Results

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• To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

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  Art, Mean, Men

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

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  Drinking, Sadness, Long

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• It is better to burn than to disappear.

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  Disappear

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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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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• Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

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• We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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  Order, Idealism, Live And Let Live

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

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  Reality, Use, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.124, Vintage

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• Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

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  Men, Want, Eras

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.191, Vintage

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• History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

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  Book, People

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

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  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

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  Warrior, Men, Trying

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• The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

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  Art, Design, Triumph

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.97, Vintage

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• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

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  War, Men, Imagination

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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  Truth, Firsts

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• …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

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  Mean, Fighting, Common Decency

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

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  Happiness, Encouragement, Goes On

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• We are all special cases.

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  Appreciation, Teacher, Special

  La Chute (The Fall, 1956) p. 95

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• I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

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  Life, Regret, Thinking

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

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  Meaning Of Life, Would Be, Stills

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

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  Men, Evil, World

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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