Albert Camus Quotes - Page 35

• What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

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  Hands, Earth, May

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

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  Life, Death, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.76, Vintage

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• I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

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  Space, Fog, Sea

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• To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

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  Facts, Fame, Parallelogram

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• God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

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  God, Self, Despair

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

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• Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

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  Believe, Struggle, Eye

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

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• The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

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  Eulogy, Enemy, Made

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• Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

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  Football, Morality, Morale

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• In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

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  Mother, Men, Funeral

  "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

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• The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

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  Sea, Casts, Shore

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

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  Independence, Few Words

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.106, Vintage

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• In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

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  Time, Knowing, People

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.

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  Taken, Home, Long

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

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

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• They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

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  Memories, Sorrow, Purpose

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

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  People, Happiness And Love, Century

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

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• It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

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  Would Be, Unions, Unjust

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.274, Vintage

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• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

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  Fate, Greatness, Destiny

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• ... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

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  Happiness, Two, Suffering

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• I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

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  Art, Divorce, Ideas

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

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• As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

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  Political, Atheism, Valhalla

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• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

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  Hands, Revolution, Rebellious

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.216, Vintage

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• For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

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  Stranger, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

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  Mean, Race, Heaven

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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

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  Lasts, Certain, Conclusion

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