Albert Camus Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

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  Passion, Liberty, Three

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• Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

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  Lying

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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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• I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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  Compassion, Ideas, Sick

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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  Love, Principles, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.129, Vintage

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• Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

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  Lying, Able, Speak

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• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

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  Attitude, Character, Passion

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

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  Despair, Nihilism, Desire

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.57, Vintage

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• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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  Love, Desire, Possession

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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• The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

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  Loss, Love Is, Rights

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

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• [Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

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  Distance, Race, Long

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• But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

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  Men, Heroism, Saint

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

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  Rejection, Unity, Artistic Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

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• In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

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  Art, Dark, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.15, Vintage

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• The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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  Real, Passion, Century

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• Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

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  Nature, Burning, Frigid

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• Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

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  Summer, Winter, Middle

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• If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Sometimes

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

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  Love, Silence, One Day

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• We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

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  Writing, Common, Misery

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