Albert Camus Quotes - Page 11

• It is better to burn than to disappear.

  Albert Camus

  Disappear

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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  Art, Hipster, Needs

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• We are all special cases.

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  Appreciation, Teacher, Special

  La Chute (The Fall, 1956) p. 95

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• Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

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• Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

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  Lying, Heart, Facts

  "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

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• The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

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  Art, Design, Triumph

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.97, Vintage

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• Morality, when formal, devours.

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  Perseverance, Morality, Formal

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• Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

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  Children, Numbers, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

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  Happiness, Heart, Firsts

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

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  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

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  Eye, Blue, Sky

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.20, Vintage

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• It is easier to kill what we do not know.

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  Easier, Knows

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• Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

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  Men, Suffering, Cry

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

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  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

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  Suffering, Happiness And Love, Unhappy

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

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• Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

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  Revenge, Best Revenge

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• My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

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  Love, Life, Occupation

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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  People, Causes, Innocent

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

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  Lying, Years, Leader

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

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• If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

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  Life, Time, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.106, Vintage

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• Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

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  Christian, Pagan, Behave

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• A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

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  Lying, Three, Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.119, Vintage

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• There is only one class of men, the privileged class

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  Men, Class, Privileged

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

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  History, Evil, Historical

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

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