Albert Camus Quotes - Page 19

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

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  Struggle, Heart, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No ends, simply means.

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  Mean, Ends

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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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• 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 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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• 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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