Albert Camus Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why must one love rarely to love well?

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  One Love, Wells

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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  Government, Definitions, Politics

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• Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

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  Writing, Needs, Genius

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

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• I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

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  Mean, Wells, Felt

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

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• She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.

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  Mean, Thinking, Lunch

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• Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

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  Solitude, Religion, Weight

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

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• Happiness too is inevitable.

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  Cynicism, Idealism, Inevitable

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• My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

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  People, Lucky, Mets

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• I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

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  Excess, Disappear, Misers

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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  Life, Goodness, Clear

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

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  Effort, Guilty, Virtue

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• If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

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  God, Should Have, Ifs

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• I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

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  Happiness, Lying, Joy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.20, Vintage

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• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

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  Men, Numbers, Land

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• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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  Life, Art, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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  Life, Truth, Party

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Myth of Sisyphus”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

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  Simple, Men, Historical

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.250, Vintage

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