Albert Camus Quotes - Page 30

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

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  Country

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

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  Pestilence, Duration, Truth Is

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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

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  Men, Despise, Admire

  "The Plague".

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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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