Albert Camus Quotes - Page 31

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

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  Rooms

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

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  Islands, Isolation, Easier

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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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• This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

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  Divorce, Men, Absurdity Of Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

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  Dream, Fighting, Rebel

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• God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

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  God, Men, Guilt

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• Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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  Death, Believe, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

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  Common, Common Knowledge, Worth Living

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

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  Believe, Struggle, Heart

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• Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

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  Love, Separation, Pity

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• To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

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  Believe, Differences, Historical

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• They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

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  Sometimes, Plague, Humans

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

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• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

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• To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

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  Memories, Space, People

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• In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

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  Struggle, Reality, Years

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• I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

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  Relationship, Loyalty, Betrayal

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.86, Vintage

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• Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

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  Life, Stupid, Mean

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• All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

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  Actions Have Consequences, Ideas, Judging

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

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• Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

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  Mistake, Philosophical, Joyful

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

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  Firsts, Murder, Crime

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• This is the century of fear.

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  Fear, Century

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• You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Wells

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• If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

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  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

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