Albert Camus Quotes - Page 20

• If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

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  Character, Men, History

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.221, Vintage

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• If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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  Life, Truth, Party

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Myth of Sisyphus”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

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  Virtue, Obstinacy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

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• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

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  Memories, Humility, Shining

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• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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  Love, Principles, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.129, Vintage

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• We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

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  Writing, Common, Misery

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• Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

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  Interesting, Trials, Docks

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• But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

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  Men, Heroism, Saint

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

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  Mean, Wells, Felt

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

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• Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

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  Solitude, Religion, Weight

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

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• In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

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  Gambling, Luck

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

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• How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

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  Men, Bitterness, Bitter

  "Caligula: a drama in two acts".

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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

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  Art, War, Men

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

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  Death, Punishment, Dying

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

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  Liberty, Exciting, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Sometimes

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

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  Passion, Liberty, Three

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• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

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  Cutting, Animal, Giving

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• When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

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  Character, Wonder, Crime

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

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• A work of art is a confession.

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  Art, Confession, Art Is

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

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  Men, Office, Clerks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

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  Men, Kind, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.238, Vintage

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• Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

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  Youth, Possibility, Collections

  Albert Camus (2013). “The First Man”, p.225, Penguin UK

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• I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

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  Joy, Made, Discontent

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