Albert Camus Quotes - Page 33

• Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

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  Passion, Fate, Reflection

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.41, Vintage

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• And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

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  Pain, Kindness, And Love

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• There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

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  Light, Essence, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.45, Vintage

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• What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

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  Power, Hands, Order

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• History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

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  Eye, History, Finals

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.289, Vintage

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• L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

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  Ideas, Fundamentals, Firsts

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• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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  Death, Peace, Heart

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.234, Vintage

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• Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

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

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

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  Happiness, Mistake, Spring

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

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  Peace, Fighting, Evil

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

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• The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

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  Distance, Reality, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

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  War, Struggle, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.180, Vintage

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• And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

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  Dominion, Said, Plague

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

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• If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

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  Would Be, Clear, Saved

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.27, Vintage

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• Men die and they are not happy.

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  Life, Death, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.8, Vintage

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• My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

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  Forgiveness, Ideas, Forgiving

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• The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

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  Kind, Slave, Masters

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

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  Wall, Destiny, Rebel

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.27, Vintage

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• Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

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  Family, Happiness, Mother

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• O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

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  Summer, Drama, Character

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.202, Vintage

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• Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

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  Term, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.129, Vintage

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• The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

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  Men, Heaven, Earth

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.60, Vintage

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• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

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  Existence, Eternal, Illusory

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

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  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

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  Country, Travel, Old Habits

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

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