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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 20

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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Character, Wonder, Crime

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

Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

Memories, Mean, Moments

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Happiness, Encouragement, Goes On

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

Albert Camus (2013). “The Myth of Sisyphus”, p.16, Penguin UK

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Life, Truth, Party

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

Character, Men, History

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.221, Vintage

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Virtue, Obstinacy

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Love, Principles, Impossible

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.129, Vintage

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Men, Heroism, Saint

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

Art, War, Men

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

Joy, Made, Discontent

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

Men, Bitterness, Bitter

"Caligula: a drama in two acts".

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Liberty, Exciting, Dangerous

Albert Camus (1958). “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”

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

Youth, Possibility, Collections

Albert Camus (2013). “The First Man”, p.225, Penguin UK

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

Joy, Sorrow, Sometimes

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

Cutting, Animal, Giving

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Mean, Wells, Felt

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

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

Pain, Suffering, Levels

Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.7, Vintage

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Solitude, Religion, Weight

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

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

Stranger, Said, No Hope

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.117, Vintage

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

New York, Insomnia, Islands

Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

Men, Kind, Human Nature

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.238, Vintage

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Death, Punishment, Dying

"Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Feelings, Way, Justified

Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.13, Penguin UK

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Passion, Liberty, Three

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