Albert Camus Quotes - Page 30

• The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

  Albert Camus

  Pestilence, Duration, Truth Is

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

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  Joy, Liberty, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

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  Passion, Heart, Law

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.22, Vintage

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• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

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  Men, Law, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.190, Vintage

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• he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

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  Mean, Long, Suffering

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

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  Integrity, Law, Justice

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• In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

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  Life, Creativity, Power

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• Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

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  Faces, Youth, Minutes

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

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• There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

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  Death, Oneself

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• The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

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  Spirit, Problem, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.20, Vintage

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• By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

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  Powerful, Men, Evil

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• I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

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  Believe, Ideas, People

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

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• Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

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  Knows, Worth Living

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• Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

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  Sky, Indifference

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

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• The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

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  Men, Together, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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• Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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  Reality, Evil, Principles

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• There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

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  Philosophy, Cowardice

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• [Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!

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  Art, Judging, Criticism

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• Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

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  Simple, Long, Faces

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• There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Despise, Admire

  "The Plague".

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• Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

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  Inspiring, Ideas, World

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• Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

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  Solitude, Together, Crime

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• Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

  Albert Camus

  Islands, Isolation, Easier

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• When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Happiness And Love, Individual

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

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• We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

  Albert Camus

  Rooms

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