Albert Camus Quotes - Page 13

• How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

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  Dry, Sun, Pool

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

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• He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

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  Heart, Sublime, Indifference

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• ...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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  Art, Culture, Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

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  Sleep, Men, Speaks Out

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Faces

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

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• Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

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  Happiness, Choices, Desire

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.118, Vintage

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

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  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

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  Liberty, World, Conquer

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• He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

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  War, Drama, Commitment

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.37, Vintage

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• Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

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  Cynical, Political, Democracy

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• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

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  Race, Heaven, Cost

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.81, Vintage

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• He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

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  Desire, Way, Facts

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.25, Vintage

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• I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

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  Writing, Stronger, Needs

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

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• I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

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  Girl, Personality, Firsts

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

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  Psychology, Ideology, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

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• We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Mad

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• There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

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  Happiness, Strong, Passionate

  Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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  Accepting, Made, Incapable

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

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• But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

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  Life, Suicide, Courage

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• We're going forward, but nothing changes.

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• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

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  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

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  Struggle, Heart, Humans

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• Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

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  Judging, Today, Ready

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

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  Meaning Of Life, Would Be, Stills

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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