Albert Camus Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

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  Culture, Firsts, Dictatorship

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.95, Vintage

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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  Time, Police, Law Enforcement

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All I know of morality I learned from football

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  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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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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• I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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  Struggle, Heart, Night

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• …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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• I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

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  Feelings, Needs, Way

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.65, Vintage

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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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• 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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• ... 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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