Albert Camus Quotes - Page 37

• All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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  Government, Reinforcement, Revolution

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.177, Vintage

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• Men die and they are not happy.

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  Life, Death, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.8, Vintage

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• He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

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  Men, Hair, Alive

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.120, Vintage

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• No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

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  Children, Father, Ideas

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

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  Men, Simplicity, Arrogance

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• So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

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  Men, Machines, Firsts

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.111, Vintage

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• In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

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  Art, Experts, Painting

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• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

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  Feelings, Splendid, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

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  Religious, Practice, People

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

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  War, Government, Revolutionary

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• You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

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  Mean, Winning, Effort

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• The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

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  Light, Staring

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• No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

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  Waiting, Doubt, Stubborn

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• That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

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  Men, Self, Two

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

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  Doctors, Ideas, Silence

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

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  Christian, Heart, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.71, Vintage

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• I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

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  Happiness And Love, World, Sacred

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

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

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  Life And Death, Evil, Unity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

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  Doors, Four, Stranger

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

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  Relationship, Helping, Humans

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• La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Twilight

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• The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

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  Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage

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• ... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

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  Family, Home, Son

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• Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

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  Faith, Stars, Luck

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• Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.

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  Cells, Sky, New Day

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

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