Albert Camus Quotes - Page 19

• There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

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  Creating, Talent, Produce

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

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• I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.

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  Cells, Desire, Would Be

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.77, Vintage

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• I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

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  Girl, Personality, Firsts

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

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  Order, Rebellion, Form

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage

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• Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

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  Life, No Hope, Incumbents

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• How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

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  Dry, Sun, Pool

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

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  Lying, Commitment, Writing

  Albert Camus (1960). “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. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

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• I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

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  Life, May, Interest

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

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• I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

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  World, Impossible, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.51, Vintage

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• We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

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  Children, Philosophy, Perfect

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

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• Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

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  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

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  Night, Men, Hours

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

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  Artist, Judging, Community

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

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  Army, Artist, Combat

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• It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

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  Art, Sea, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

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

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• It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

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  Impossible, Logic, Bitter

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

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  Art, War, Men

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• No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

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  Mistake, Blessing, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.131, Vintage

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• Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

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  Cynical, Political, Democracy

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• If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

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  Mistake, Believe, Long

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

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• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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  Art, Work, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

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  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

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  Steps, Accepting, Dead Ends

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

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• Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

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  Secret, Faces, Great Work

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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