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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 31

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Struggle, Heart, Hard Times

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

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Men, Feelings, Faces

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Heart, Imagination, Trying

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Change, Fate, Destiny

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

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

Struggle, Fate, Darkness

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

Judgement, Essentials, Share

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Running, Ugly, Settling

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets, 1935-1942”

What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

Integrity, Men, Good Man

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Useless, Pity, Grows

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions 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. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Memories, Sleep, Divorce

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

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

Fall, Responsibility, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Suicide, Passion, Three

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Freedom, Action, Individual

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.56, Vintage

Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

Passion, Fate, Reflection

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.41, Vintage

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Men, Desire, Useless

In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

Brother, Light, Sky

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

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

People, Admirer, Despise

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

Sacrifice, Vanity, Civilization

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

Summer, Sleep, May

Albert Camus (1982). “The stranger”

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Should

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.

Men, Want, Might

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

Dog, Thinking, Tonight

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.46, Vintage

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

Pain, Kindness, And Love

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

Limits, Reason, Absurd

Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Power, Hands, Order

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