Albert Camus Quotes - Page 22

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Compassion, Ideas, Sick

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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  Real, Passion, Century

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

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  Pain, Real, Believe

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• Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

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  Crush, History, Deny

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.86, Vintage

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• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

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  Cutting, Animal, Giving

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• Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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  Order, Dying, Killing

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

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  Power, Men, Practice

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• Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

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  Liberty, Exciting, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “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”

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• I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

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  Life, Despair, Alive

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