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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 27

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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

Nihilism, Nihilist, Part Time

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Inspirational, Science, Technology

Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Art, Ends, Insight

Why must one love rarely to love well?

One Love, Wells

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Writing, Character, May

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.37, Vintage

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

Greatness, Echoes, Humanity

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Freedom, Ideas, Liberty

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.102, Vintage

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

Sea, House, Unrest

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

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

Strong, Men, Honor

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Lying, Men, Decision

Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.18, Princeton University Press

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Men, Absurd, Conscious

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

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

Beach, Wind, Waiting

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

Men, Hands, Way

...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

Men, Liberty, Want

Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.51, Hamilton Books

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Nature, Real, Blood

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.44, Vintage

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Relationship, Positive, Future

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Murder, Exhausting

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

Lonely, Stars, Philosophy

L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

Atheism, Laziness, Able

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Men, Matter, Indifference

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.94, Vintage

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Solitude, Violence, Working Conditions

Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.

Girlfriend, Tired, Men

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

Artist, Able, Modern

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.275, Vintage

The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.

Christian, Religious, Men

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

Believe, People, Justice

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