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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 14

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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Accepting, Made, Incapable

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

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Happiness, Choices, Desire

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.118, Vintage

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

Fighting, Thinking, Mad

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Life, Success, Humor

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Art, Real, Criticism

Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Artist, Judging, Community

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Meaning Of Life, Would Be, Stills

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.14, Vintage

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Happiness, Success, Happy

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

We're going forward, but nothing changes.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Running, Distance, Long

Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

4th Of July, Media, Be Good

"TV news crisis needs a radical solution" by Richard Tait, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

Distance, Breathing Space, Long

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

Creating, Talent, Produce

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

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

Atheism, Want, Found

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

Rights, Duty, Uncompromising

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.105, Vintage

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Forgotten, Used, Martyr

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Order, Rebellion, Form

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Judging, Judgment, Breathe

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

Girl, Beach, Morning

My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

Gratitude, Men, Law

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

World, Impossible, Sisyphus

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.51, Vintage

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Men, Luck, Energy

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

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Facts, Serious, Speak

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.176, Vintage

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Success, Discipline, Way

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.79, Vintage

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Secret, Faces, Great Work

"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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