Albert Camus Quotes - Page 17

• The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

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  Essentials, Dimensions, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.277, Vintage

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• On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

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  Art, Moving, Adventure

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.268, Vintage

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• I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

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  Distance, Far Away, Alienation

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• Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

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• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

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  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

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  Rain, Struggle, Reality

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.258, Vintage

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• The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

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  Success, Discipline, Way

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.79, Vintage

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• Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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  Doubt, Doe, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

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  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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  Life, Truth, Passion

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• He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

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  War, Drama, Commitment

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.37, Vintage

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• Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

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  Children, Numbers, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• A work of art is a confession.

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  Art, Confession, Art Is

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

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  Great Love, Despair, Conquer

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• Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

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  History, Evil, Historical

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

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• I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

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  People, Tears, Age

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

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  Judging, Today, Ready

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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  Death, Men, Effort

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• All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

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  Suicide, Health, Men

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• For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

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  Self, Water, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

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  Demand, Greater, Deserve

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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  Country, Travel, Boredom

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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• The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

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  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

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  Men, Judging Yourself, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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