Albert Camus Quotes - Page 39

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

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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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• 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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• His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

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  Would Be, Virtue, Granted

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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