Albert Camus Quotes - Page 35

• Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

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  Mean, Race, Heaven

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• I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

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  Art, Divorce, Ideas

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

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  Age, Experience, World

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• The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

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  Children, Simple, Easy

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• There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

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  Guilt, May, Shame

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

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• It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

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  Thinking, People, Normal

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

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  Stars, Heart, Dark

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

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  Church, Empires, Sun

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

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  Men, Giving, Principles

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• We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

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  Dream, Fighting, Rebel

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• There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

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  Sea, Glasses, Light

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• In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

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  Men, Italian, Museums

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

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• What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.

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  Running, Cutting, Luxury

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

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• Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

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  Unhappy, Lovers, Cherish

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.97, Vintage

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• True artists scorn nothing.

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  Artist, Scorn, True Artists

  Albert Camus (1960). “Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

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• Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

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  Inspiring, Ideas, World

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• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

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  Book, Reality, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.50, Vintage

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• There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

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  Hurt, Emptiness, Indifference

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• Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

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  Love, Separation, Pity

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• Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

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  Time, Style, Liberty

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• A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

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  Men, Paper, May

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

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  Heart, Sea, Royal

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

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  Philosophical, Men, Obscurity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.54, Vintage

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• I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

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  Ideas, People, Forget

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

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  Mother, Home, Mean

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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