Albert Camus Quotes - Page 34

• I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

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  Life, Death, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.76, Vintage

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• What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

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  Hands, Earth, May

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

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  Cutting, Law, Two

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• Without work all life goes rotten.

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  Work, Rotten, Stifling

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• God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

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  God, Self, Despair

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

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• In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

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  Mother, Men, Funeral

  "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

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• Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

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  Believe, Struggle, Eye

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

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• Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

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  Football, Morality, Morale

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• In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

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  Time, Knowing, People

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.

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  Taken, Home, Long

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

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• In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

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  Men, Innocence, Guilty

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• They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

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  Memories, Sorrow, Purpose

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

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• The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

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  People, Happiness And Love, Century

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

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  Would Be, Unions, Unjust

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.274, Vintage

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• Don't let them tell us stories.

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  Stories

  "The Wrong Side and the Right Side". Book by Albert Camus, 1937.

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• Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

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  Thinking, Psychology, Action

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

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• In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

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  Country

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• I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

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  Saint, Fellowship, Defeated

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

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  Hands, Revolution, Rebellious

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.216, Vintage

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• Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

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  Knows, Worth Living

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• As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

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  Political, Atheism, Valhalla

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• For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

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  Stranger, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• ... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

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  Happiness, Two, Suffering

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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

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  Lasts, Certain, Conclusion

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