Albert Camus Quotes - Page 30

• Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

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  Heart, Men, Divinity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.147, Vintage

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• To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

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  Memories, Space, People

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• There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

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  Men, Despise, Admire

  "The Plague".

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• The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

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  Fighting, History, Prestige

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

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• Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

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  Life, Stupid, Mean

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• All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

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  Actions Have Consequences, Ideas, Judging

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

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• Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

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  Mistake, Philosophical, Joyful

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

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  Mean, Ideas, Wonderful

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• ... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

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  Firsts, Murder, Crime

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• This is the century of fear.

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  Fear, Century

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• Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

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  Thinking Of You, Thinking, Wells

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• You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Wells

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• They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

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  Sometimes, Plague, Humans

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

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• The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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  Real, Passion, Century

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• In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

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  Struggle, Reality, Years

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• I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

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  Relationship, Loyalty, Betrayal

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.86, Vintage

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• If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

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  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

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• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

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  Order, History, Creative

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• But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.

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  Dream, Rain, Struggle

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• Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

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  Art, Men, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

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• “To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

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  Men, Thinking, Despair

  "Happy Death".

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• What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

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  Christian, World, Should

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• In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

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  Philosophy, World, Today

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

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• There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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  Change, Fate, Destiny

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

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• Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

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  Life, Mother, Yesterday

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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