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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 25

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

History, Encounters, Want

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.248, Vintage

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

New York, Real, Blow

Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.41, Vintage

It is immoral not to tell.

Writing, Immoral

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Struggle, Heart, Night

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

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Optimistic, Destiny, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

Judging, Guilt, Comfort

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Believe, Cutting, Men

I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Beach, Doors, Silence

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.59, Vintage

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Football, Morality, Obligation

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Moments, Life Time, Carrie

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.13, Vintage

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

People, Leader, Slave

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.182, Vintage

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

Attitude, Fighting, Giving

Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Death, Thinking, Race

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

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Integrity, People, Needs

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.

Trust, Home, Heart

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Fall, Artist, Night

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Art, Philosophy, Thinking

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.99, Vintage

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

Alarms, Bells, Faces

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

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

Heart, Reality, Men

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

Intellectual, Way, West

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.170, Vintage

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

Absurd

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

Memories, Fear, Home

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Love, Selfish, Vanity

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Reality, Our World, Uprising

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

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