Albert Camus Quotes - Page 19

• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

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  Men, Numbers, Land

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• I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

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  Excess, Disappear, Misers

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• Happiness too is inevitable.

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  Cynicism, Idealism, Inevitable

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• All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

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  Suicide, Health, Men

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• My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

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  People, Lucky, Mets

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

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  Men, Rebel, Doe

  "Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews" by Julie Marie Wade, therumpus.net. December 1, 2017.

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• In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

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  Effort, Guilty, Virtue

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• We're all special cases.

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  Special, Cases

  'La Chute' p. 95

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• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

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  Distance, Men, Voice

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• Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

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  Powerful, Enemy, Tongue

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• I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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  Compassion, Ideas, Sick

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

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  Loss, Love Is, Rights

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

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• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

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  Children, Self, Personality

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

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• Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

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  Lying, Able, Speak

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• But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

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  Judging, Guilt, World

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Book

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• Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

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  Men, Irony, Hunger

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• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

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  Attitude, Character, Passion

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

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• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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  Love, Desire, Possession

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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  Government, Definitions, Politics

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• All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

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  Happiness, Encouragement, Goes On

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• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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  Life, Art, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

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  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

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

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• Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

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  Memories, Mean, Moments

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

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  Crush, History, Deny

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.86, Vintage

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