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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 34

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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

Life, Clear, Findings

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.53, Vintage

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Unity, Demand, Rebellion

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.255, Vintage

Without work all life goes rotten.

Work, Rotten, Stifling

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

God, Self, Despair

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

Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

Believe, Struggle, Eye

Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Football, Morality, Morale

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Mother, Men, Funeral

"What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Time, Knowing, People

"The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.

Taken, Home, Long

"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Men, Innocence, Guilty

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Memories, Sorrow, Purpose

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

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Truth, Believe, Men

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

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

People, Happiness And Love, Century

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

Don't let them tell us stories.

Stories

"The Wrong Side and the Right Side". Book by Albert Camus, 1937.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Would Be, Unions, Unjust

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.274, Vintage

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Thinking, Psychology, Action

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

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

Country

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

Saint, Fellowship, Defeated

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

Political, Atheism, Valhalla

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

Knows, Worth Living

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Hands, Revolution, Rebellious

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.216, Vintage

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Stranger, Sisyphus

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

Lasts, Certain, Conclusion

Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

Mean, Race, Heaven

... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.

Happiness, Two, Suffering

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