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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 33

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Art, Meaning Of Life, Life Has No Meaning

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Betrayal, Love Is, Happiness And Love

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Existence, Eternal, Illusory

"The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

Life, Doubt, Mind

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.57, Vintage

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

Challenges, Age, Peculiar

Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Believe, Men, World

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.28, Vintage

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

Atheist, Atheism, Doe

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

Love, Faith, Unhappy

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Possession, Humans, Human Beings

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

Believe, Funeral, Belief

Suffering gives us no special rights.

Rights, Giving, Suffering

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Cutting, Remember, Knows

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

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Hurt, Earth, Injury

Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

Office, Clerks, Common

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

Hands, Earth, May

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

Life, Death, Believe

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.76, Vintage

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Painting

Albert Camus (2012). “Exile and the Kingdom”, p.129, Vintage

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

Believe, Two, People

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

Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

Memories, Eye, Boys

ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Cutting, Law, Two

"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

Fate, Tasks, Rare Moments

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

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

Country, Travel, Old Habits

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

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

Space, Moments, Absent

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

Truth, Mind, Denial

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.73, Vintage

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