Albert Camus Quotes - Page 34

• Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

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  Art, Meaning Of Life, Life Has No Meaning

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• To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

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  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.57, Vintage

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• Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

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  Love, Faith, Unhappy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

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• I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

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  Order, Complaining, Able

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

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  Fate, Men, Joy

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

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• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

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  Believe, Two, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

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  Office, Clerks, Common

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

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  Truth, Mind, Denial

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

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  Past, Oil, Silence

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.15, Vintage

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• The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

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  War, Government, Revolutionary

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• Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

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  Prejudice, Marxism

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

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  Believe, Men, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.28, Vintage

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• Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

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  Memories, Eye, Boys

  ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

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• No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

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  Waiting, Doubt, Stubborn

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• I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

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  Want, Knows, Ifs

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• The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

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  Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage

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• After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

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  Doctors, Ideas, Silence

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

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  Men, Transcendental, Without God

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

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• The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

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  Men, Escaping, Majority

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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• The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

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  Fate, Tasks, Rare Moments

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

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  Painting

  Albert Camus (2012). “Exile and the Kingdom”, p.129, Vintage

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• I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

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  Space, Moments, Absent

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• There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

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  Believe, Funeral, Belief

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• In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

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  Unity, Demand, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.255, Vintage

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