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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 12

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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Dog, Attachment, Owning A Pet

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.121, Vintage

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Lying, Years, Leader

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

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Life, Suicide, Courage

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Art, Culture, Creation

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Music, Dream, Appreciation

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Life, Mean, Cities

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

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Psychology, Ideology, Humans

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Suffering, Happiness And Love, Unhappy

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Thinking, Atheism, Habit

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

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Men, Individuality, Trying

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

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Guilt, Victim, Made

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.56, Vintage

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Lying, Three, Used

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.119, Vintage

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

Struggle, Heart, Humans

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Life, Despair, Alive

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

Heart, Sublime, Indifference

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

Lying

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Unity, Kind, Rebellion

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.125, Vintage

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

Writing, Stronger, Needs

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

There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

Happiness, Strong, Passionate

Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

Men, Judging Yourself, Mind

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

Life, Tragedy, Easy

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.201, Vintage

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Death, Men, Long

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

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

Simple, Men, Historical

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.250, Vintage

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

Hands, Effort, Wish

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