Albert Camus Quotes - Page 29

• Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

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  Power, Historical, Tasks

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• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

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  Art, Fate, Differences

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• The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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  Intellectual, Roles, Violence

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

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  Men, Hair, Alive

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.120, Vintage

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• Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

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  Real, Lying, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.39, Vintage

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• It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

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  Life, Clear, Findings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.53, Vintage

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• You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

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  Mean, Winning, Effort

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• No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

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  Possession, Humans, Human Beings

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

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• how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

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  Cutting, Remember, Knows

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

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• Suffering gives us no special rights.

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  Rights, Giving, Suffering

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• To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

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  Cutting, Law, Two

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• Without work all life goes rotten.

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  Work, Rotten, Stifling

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• Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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  Philosophy, Men, Prey

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

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  Noble, Demand, Rebellion

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• The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

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  War, Clouds, Storm

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.275, Vintage

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• In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

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  Men, Innocence, Guilty

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• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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  Love, Men, Precious Stones

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• ... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

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  God, Prayer, Hate

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• Don't let them tell us stories.

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  Stories

  "The Wrong Side and the Right Side". Book by Albert Camus, 1937.

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• Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

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  Thinking, Psychology, Action

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

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  Country

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• It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Doe

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• I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

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  Saint, Fellowship, Defeated

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

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  Men, Two, Knowing

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

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  Mean, Men, Ideas

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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