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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 36

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The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Rooms, Saws, Firsts

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.72, Vintage

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

Ideas, People, Forget

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Time, Style, Liberty

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Men, Italian, Museums

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

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Average, Facts, Normal

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Felt, Urges

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Memories, Men, Years

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Play, Mind

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Real, Ignorance, Men

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

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

Philosophy, Ironic, Passionate

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.116, Vintage

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

Men, Differences, Views

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Views, Ideas, Giving

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.42, Vintage

Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.

Dream, Country, Night

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Men, Suffering, World

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.83, Vintage

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Revolutionary, Ends, Heretic

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Reality, Utopia, Contradiction

Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.261, Princeton University Press

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

Writing, Suffering, Today

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Selfish, Passion, Comfort

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

Love, Great Love, Objects

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.58, Vintage

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Artist, Men, Stronger

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

Light, Mind, Borders

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

War, Struggle, World

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.180, Vintage

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Real, Men, Example

"Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Real, Profound, Aristocracy

"Notebooks".

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Government, Reinforcement, Revolution

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.177, Vintage

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