Albert Camus Quotes - Page 18

• In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

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  Believe, Artist, World

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

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  Life, Time, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.106, Vintage

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• Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

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  Believe, Europe, Civilization

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.243, Vintage

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• I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

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  Memories, Joy, Stranger

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

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  Self, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

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• Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

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  Men, Every Man

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

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  Love, Life, Occupation

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Book

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• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

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  Virtue, Obstinacy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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  Life, Beauty, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

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  Life, Tragedy, Easy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

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  Spring, Mean, Unity

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

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  Struggle, Heart, Humans

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• I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

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  Writing, Stronger, Needs

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

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• I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

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  Atheism, Want, Found

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

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• Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

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  Men, Irony, Hunger

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

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  Men, Rebel, Doe

  "Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews" by Julie Marie Wade, therumpus.net. December 1, 2017.

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• In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

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  Culture, World, Persuasion

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Mad

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• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

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  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

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  Fall, Responsibility, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

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  Dog, Thinking, Tonight

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.46, Vintage

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• He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

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  Desire, Way, Facts

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.25, Vintage

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• No ends, simply means.

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  Mean, Ends

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• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

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  Feelings, May, Intense

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