Albert Camus Quotes - Page 20

• For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Men, Atheism

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• I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

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  Believe, Virtue, Wells

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

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• Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

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  Memories, Roots, Shadow

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

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  Sleep, Men, Light

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

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  Nihilism, Nihilist, Part Time

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• For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

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  Kind, Breaking Down, Mask

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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• We're all special cases.

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  Special, Cases

  'La Chute' p. 95

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• What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

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  Friends, Sympathy, Heartache

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• My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Men, Law

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• I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

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  Done, Way, Wells

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

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• Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

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  Writing, Novelists, Philosopher

  "Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus)". Book by Albert Camus (Chapter 1: An Absurd Reasoning), 1955.

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• One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

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  Bending, Love Myself, Break

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”

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• Why must one love rarely to love well?

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  One Love, Wells

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• None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

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  Evil, Claims, Remedy

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

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  Death, Punishment, Dying

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

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  Happiness, Strong, Passionate

  Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Belief

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.57, Vintage

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• To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

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  Passion, Forgiving, Age

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• Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

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  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

  La Chute (The Fall) (1956)

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• The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

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  Mistake, Believe, Heart

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• True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

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  Self Love, Debauchery, Lovers

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.103, Vintage

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• I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

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  Life, Real, Weakness

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”

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• Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

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  Anger, Done, Lasts

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• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

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  Silence, Sound, Ears

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• Without freedom there is no art.

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  Art

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