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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 19

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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Compassion, Ideas, Sick

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

We're all special cases.

Special, Cases

'La Chute' p. 95

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

Loss, Love Is, Rights

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

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

People, Tears, Age

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

Powerful, Enemy, Tongue

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

Lying, Able, Speak

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

Children, Self, Personality

Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

Judging, Guilt, World

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Attitude, Character, Passion

"The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Men, Irony, Hunger

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Men, Rebel, Doe

"Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews" by Julie Marie Wade, therumpus.net. December 1, 2017.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Gambling, Luck

Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Suicide, Health, Men

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

Teacher, Teaching, Lectures

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Love, Desire, Possession

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

Crush, History, Deny

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.86, Vintage

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Memories, Humility, Shining

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Life, Art, Freedom

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Government, Definitions, Politics

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Teacher, Retirement, Book

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

Men, Office, Clerks

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

Interesting, Trials, Docks

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Dying, Reason, Excellent

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

Writing, Common, Misery

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