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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 30

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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Fighting, History, Prestige

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Life, Stupid, Mean

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Actions Have Consequences, Ideas, Judging

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Men, Despise, Admire

"The Plague".

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

Thinking Of You, Thinking, Wells

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

Mean, Ideas, Wonderful

This is the century of fear.

Fear, Century

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Firsts, Murder, Crime

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Mistake, Philosophical, Joyful

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

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Intelligent, Thinking, Wells

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

Sometimes, Plague, Humans

Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Real, Passion, Century

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

Struggle, Reality, Years

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Relationship, Loyalty, Betrayal

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.86, Vintage

If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

Brother, Blessing, Hands

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

Christian, Pagan, Behave

But 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 seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.

Dream, Rain, Struggle

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Order, History, Creative

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

Art, Men, Order

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

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

Men, Thinking, Despair

"Happy Death".

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Christian, World, Should

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Philosophy, World, Today

"The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

Good Day, Answers, Ifs

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Life, Mother, Yesterday

Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.2, Hamilton Books

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Strange, Rebellion, Form

"The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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