Albert Camus Quotes - Page 14

• Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

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  Forgotten, Used, Martyr

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• Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

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  Guilt, Victim, Made

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.56, Vintage

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• To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

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  Passion, Forgiving, Age

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• What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

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  Lying, Mean, Two

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

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  Simple, Men, Historical

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.250, Vintage

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• Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

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  Unity, Kind, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.125, Vintage

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• Without freedom there is no art.

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  Art

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• I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

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  Selfishness, Continuity, Day To Day

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• We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

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  World, Weight, Infinite

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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• Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

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  Lying

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

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  Running, Distance, Long

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

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• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

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  Artist, Judging, Community

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

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  Distance, Breathing Space, Long

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• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

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  Happiness, Success, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

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• In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

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  Facts, Serious, Speak

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.176, Vintage

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• To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

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  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

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• The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

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  Order, Rebellion, Form

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage

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• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

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  Men, Luck, Energy

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

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• The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

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  Hero, Passion, Live In The Present

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• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

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  Feelings, May, Intense

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• It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

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  Heart, Body, Illusion

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

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• Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

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  Art, Men, Lasts

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• I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

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  World, Impossible, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.51, Vintage

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• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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  Two, Long, Goal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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