Albert Camus Quotes - Page 33

• I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

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  Believe, Men, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.28, Vintage

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• The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

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  Life, Doubt, Mind

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• No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

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  Possession, Humans, Human Beings

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

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• Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

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• Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

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  Love, Faith, Unhappy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

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• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

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  Existence, Eternal, Illusory

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

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  Betrayal, Love Is, Happiness And Love

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• Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

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  Art, Meaning Of Life, Life Has No Meaning

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• To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

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  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.57, Vintage

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

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  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

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  Space, Moments, Absent

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

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  Country, Travel, Old Habits

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

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• In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

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  Unity, Demand, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.255, Vintage

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• Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

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  Memories, Eye, Boys

  ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

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• It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

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  Life, Clear, Findings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.53, Vintage

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• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

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  Believe, Two, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

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  Truth, Mind, Denial

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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• I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

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  Want, Knows, Ifs

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• A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

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  Office, Clerks, Common

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

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• Suffering gives us no special rights.

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  Rights, Giving, Suffering

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• To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

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  Hurt, Earth, Injury

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

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  Fate, Tasks, Rare Moments

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

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• how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

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  Cutting, Remember, Knows

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

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• There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

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  Believe, Funeral, Belief

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• It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

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  Painting

  Albert Camus (2012). “Exile and the Kingdom”, p.129, Vintage

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