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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 16

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Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

Marriage, Hair, Numbers

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

Rain, Struggle, Reality

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.258, Vintage

Fate is not in man but around him

Fate, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.143, Vintage

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Art, Design, World

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Able, Conscious, My Time

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Self Love, Debauchery, Lovers

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.103, Vintage

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Lying, Commitment, Writing

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”

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Men, Independence, Craving

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.25, Vintage

You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

Art, Mistake, Thinking

"Happy Death".

With rebellion, awareness is born

Awareness, Rebellion, Born

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.15, Vintage

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

Friends, Sympathy, Heartache

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Mistake, Blessing, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.131, Vintage

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

Drama, Flower, Passion

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Heaven, Kind, Life Is

Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

History, Finals, Analysis

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.289, Vintage

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Nature, Law, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.36, Vintage

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Art, Sea, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Men, Conscious

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.32, Vintage

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Relationship, Money

Albert Camus (1957). “The fall”, Vintage

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Want, Return, Stranger

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Frontiers, Appearing

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

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Light, Blind

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

Book, People

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Impossible, Logic, Bitter

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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