Albert Camus Quotes - Page 18

• Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

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  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

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  Writing, Novelists, Philosopher

  "Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus)". Book by Albert Camus (Chapter 1: An Absurd Reasoning), 1955.

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• If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

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  God, Should Have, Ifs

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• I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

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  Happiness, Lying, Joy

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

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

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  Despair, Nihilism, Desire

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.57, Vintage

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• If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

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  Mistake, Believe, Long

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

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• A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

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  Believe, Nihilism, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.69, Vintage

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• The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

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  World, Absurd, Refuge

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• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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  Art, Work, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• The truth, as the light, makes blind.

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  Light, Blind

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• Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

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  Rejection, Unity, Artistic Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

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  Drama, Flower, Passion

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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  Life, Beauty, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

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  Hands, Sky, People

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

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• We are condemned to live together.

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  Together

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.127, Vintage

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• The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

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  Demand, Greater, Deserve

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

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  Memories, Roots, Shadow

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

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  Lying, Hypocrisy, Too Much

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• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

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  Silence, Sound, Ears

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• History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

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  Book, People

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

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• We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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  Relationship, Money

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

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• There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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  Life, Goodness, Clear

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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  Heroism, Difficult

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