Albert Camus Quotes - Page 21

• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

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  War, Men, Imagination

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

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  Stranger, Said, No Hope

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.117, Vintage

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• Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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  Feelings, Way, Justified

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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  Order, Dying, Killing

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

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  Art, Simplicity, Scales

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

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  Thinking, Ends, Resolve

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• Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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  Grief, Men, Justice

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• Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

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  Money, Men, Would Be

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• What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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  Dying, Reason, Excellent

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

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  Summer, Winter, Middle

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• I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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  Sky, Feelings, Harmony

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• Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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  Death, Men, Effort

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• Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

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  Morning, Yield, Waiting

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays (Letter to P.B.)". Book by Albert Camus, 1967.

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• Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

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  Existentialism

  "Caligula and Cross purpose".

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• After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

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  Love, Silence, One Day

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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

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  New York, Insomnia, Islands

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

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  People, Leader, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.182, Vintage

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• There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

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  Men, Good Man, Goodness

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• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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  Future, Perfect, Art And Culture

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

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• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

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  Power, Men, Practice

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• There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

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  Pain, Real, World

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• At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

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  Pain, Suffering, Levels

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.7, Vintage

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• He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

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  Divine Justice, Would Be, Sin

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.118, Vintage

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• There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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  Men, Reason, Existence

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• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

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  Temptation, Intelligence, Cynicism

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

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