Albert Camus Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Dying, Killing

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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  Future, Perfect, Art And Culture

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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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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• There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

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  Men, Good Man, Goodness

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• A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

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  Men, Kind, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.238, Vintage

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• Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

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  Stranger, Said, No Hope

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.117, Vintage

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

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  Drama, Flower, Passion

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• Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

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  Existentialism

  "Caligula and Cross purpose".

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• Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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  Feelings, Way, Justified

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

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  Art, Simplicity, Scales

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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  Grief, Men, Justice

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• Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

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  Christian, Pagan, Behave

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• Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

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  Rights, Duty, Uncompromising

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.105, Vintage

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• One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

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  Thinking, Years, Guilt

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

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  Money, Men, Would Be

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• The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

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  Fighting, History, Prestige

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

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• There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

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  Hands, Essentials, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

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  Morning, Yield, Waiting

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays (Letter to P.B.)". Book by Albert Camus, 1967.

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• There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

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  Pain, Real, World

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• Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

  Albert Camus

  Facts, Strange, Rebellion

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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