Albert Camus Quotes - Page 37

• Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Style, Liberty

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• I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

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  Memories, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

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• No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

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  Children, Father, Ideas

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• ...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

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  Play, Mind

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• On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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  Real, Ignorance, Men

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

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• Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

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  Men, Differences, Views

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• It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

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  Views, Ideas, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.42, Vintage

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• The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

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  Men, Suffering, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.83, Vintage

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• Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

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  Revolutionary, Ends, Heretic

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• Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

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  Reality, Utopia, Contradiction

  Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.261, Princeton University Press

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• A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

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  Writing, Suffering, Today

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

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  Selfish, Passion, Comfort

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

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  Love, Great Love, Objects

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.58, Vintage

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• What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

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  Real, Men, Example

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

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  Light, Mind, Borders

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• Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

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  Artist, Men, Stronger

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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  Real, Profound, Aristocracy

  "Notebooks".

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• All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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  Government, Reinforcement, Revolution

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.177, Vintage

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• In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

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  Men, Simplicity, Arrogance

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• So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

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  Men, Machines, Firsts

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.111, Vintage

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• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

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  Feelings, Splendid, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

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  Religious, Practice, People

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

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  Doe, Ashes, Venture

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

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  Destiny, Agony, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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• That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

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  Men, Self, Two

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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