Albert Camus Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• 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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• But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

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  Life, Suicide, Courage

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• Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

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  Guilt, Victim, Made

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.56, Vintage

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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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• Happiness too is inevitable.

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  Cynicism, Idealism, Inevitable

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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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• 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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• 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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• Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

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  Lying

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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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• 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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• Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

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  Unity, Kind, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.125, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

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  Distance, Men, Voice

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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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• 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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• Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

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  Powerful, Enemy, Tongue

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• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

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  Children, Self, Personality

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

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• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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