Albert Camus Quotes - Page 25

• We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Answers, Able

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• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

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  Men, Self, Honest

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• Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

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  Law, Yesterday, Trials

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Mouths, Dirt

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• The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

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  Giving, Choices, Bitterness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

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  Believe, Support, Obvious

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

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  Lying, Divorce, Elements

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

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  Distance, Order, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

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  Dream, Children, Errors

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.188, Vintage

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• As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

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  Mean, Law, Tunes

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

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• A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

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  Civilization, Deeds, Trials

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.181, Vintage

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• But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

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  Rivers, Talking, Long

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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  Death, Thinking, Race

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

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  Profound, Shapes, Becoming

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.114, Vintage

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• I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

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  Suicide, Illustration, Married

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

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  Stars, Night, Horizon

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

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• Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

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  Believe, Blue, Sky

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

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  Men, Careers, Sometimes

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• I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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  Light, Able, Pleasure

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

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  Judging, World, Admiration

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.130, Vintage

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• I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Health, Smoking

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• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

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  Effort, Code Of Ethics, Faces

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

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  Forgiveness, Republic, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage

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• A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

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  Philosophy, Novel

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.199, Vintage

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• Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Sunset, Light

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