Albert Camus Quotes - Page 23

• A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

  Albert Camus

  Civilization, Deeds, Trials

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.181, Vintage

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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  Time, Police, Law Enforcement

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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• I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

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  Life, Real, Weakness

  Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”

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• The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

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  Artist, Revolution, Birth

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• In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

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  Art, Dark, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.15, Vintage

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• Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

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  Flower, Creating, Anxiety

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

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  Power, Answers, Able

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• What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

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  Believe, Support, Obvious

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

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  Giving, Choices, Bitterness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

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  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

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  Lying, Divorce, Elements

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

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  Life, Passion, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

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  Rivers, Talking, Long

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

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  Dream, Children, Errors

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.188, Vintage

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• But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

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  Pain, Choices, Suffering

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.56, Vintage

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• There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

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  Night, Men, Hours

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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  Light, Able, Pleasure

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

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  Judging, World, Admiration

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.130, Vintage

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• It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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  Life, Order, Giving

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

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• I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

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  Morning, Health, Smoking

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• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

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  Effort, Code Of Ethics, Faces

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

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  Profound, Shapes, Becoming

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.114, Vintage

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• Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

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  Believe, Blue, Sky

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

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• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

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  Forgiveness, Republic, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage

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• A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

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  Philosophy, Novel

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.199, Vintage

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