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

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  Light, Staring

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

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  Dream, Sweet, Party

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.55, Vintage

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• Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

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  Anger, Order, Europe

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• What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

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  Christian, Heart, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.71, Vintage

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• Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

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  Desert, Lasts, Reason

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.189, Vintage

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• May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

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  Friendship, Heaven, Pedestal

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

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  Cease

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• And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

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  Doors, Four, Stranger

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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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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• A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

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  Acting, Nazism, Logic

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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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• life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

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  Thinking, Stories, Life Is

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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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• 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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