Albert Camus Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

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  Faith, Stars, Luck

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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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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

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  Life And Death, Evil, Unity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

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  Men, Important, Execution

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.110, Vintage

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• It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

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  Sunday, Back To Work, Stranger

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.24, Vintage

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• At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.

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  Mother, Strong, Mean

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• The absurd is sin without God.

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  Sin, Absurd, Absurdity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

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• From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

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  Power, Way, Pope

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.61, Vintage

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• Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

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  Death, Importance, Precise

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

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  Play, Next Day, Week

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.105, Vintage

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• Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

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  Progress, Revolution, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

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  Joy, Feelings, Happiness And Love

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

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• Finally, and most of all, words failed him.

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• The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

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  Passion, Happiness And Love, Moments

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

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• Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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  Life, Knowledge, Thinking

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

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• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

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  Religious, Art, Mean

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.270, Vintage

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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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• 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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• Everything is true, and nothing is true!

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  Existentialism, Stranger

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.91, Vintage

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