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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 11

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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Mean, Historical, Doe

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.292, Vintage

Morality, when formal, devours.

Perseverance, Morality, Formal

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

Happiness, Heart, Firsts

L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Doctors, Suffering, Taught

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

Lying, Believe, Men

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Mean, Knows

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Inspirational, Life, Men

Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

Work

We are all special cases.

Appreciation, Teacher, Special

La Chute (The Fall, 1956) p. 95

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

Helping Others, People, World

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Giving Up, Believe, Men

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Art, Moving, Adventure

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.268, Vintage

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

Men, Every Man

Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Life, Time, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.106, Vintage

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Principles, Graciousness, Bigs

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

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Stars, Sleep, Night

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

Facts, Well Known, Homeland

"Lyrical and Critical Essays".

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Solitude, Poverty, Values

"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Risk, Being Loved

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Life, Boredom, Existential

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Fate, Giving, Shapes

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Cynical, Political, Democracy

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Destiny, Men, Faces

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

I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

Spring, Mean, Unity

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

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

History, Evil, Historical

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

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