Albert Camus Quotes - Page 38

• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

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  Wall, Bumps, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.20, Vintage

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• La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Twilight

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• The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

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  Light, Staring

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• Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

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  Honesty, Speak, Quiver

  "Notebooks, 1951-1959".

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• ... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

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  Family, Home, Son

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• Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

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  Relationship, Helping, Humans

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• I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

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  Happiness And Love, World, Sacred

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

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• My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

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  Giving, Judging, Pieces

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.

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  Mean, Thinking, Meals

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.241, Vintage

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• To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

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  Art, Writing, Disinterest

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

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• At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

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  Sky, Tree, Looks

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• Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

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  Struggle, Love Is, Long

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• The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

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  Mean, Government, Law

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• What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

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  Destiny, People, Finals

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• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

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  Passion, Light, Feelings

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

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• Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

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  Mean, Men, Events

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

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• Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

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  Believe, Men, Desire

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

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• The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

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  Gratitude, Sex, Bed

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.67, Vintage

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• Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

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  Cells, Sky, New Day

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

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• After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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  Death, Running, Risk

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• I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

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  Christian, Children, Struggle

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• What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

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  Secret, Everyday, Logical

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

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• Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

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  Ideas, Laziness, Made

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• This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

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  Character, Thinking, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.92, Vintage

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• Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

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  Succeed, Steps, Torture

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

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