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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 37

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Men die and they are not happy.

Men die and they are not happy.

Life, Death, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.8, Vintage

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

Men, Hair, Alive

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.120, Vintage

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

Children, Father, Ideas

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Men, Simplicity, Arrogance

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Men, Machines, Firsts

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.111, Vintage

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Art, Experts, Painting

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Feelings, Splendid, Sisyphus

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

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Religious, Practice, People

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

War, Government, Revolutionary

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Mean, Winning, Effort

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

Light, Staring

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

Doctors, Ideas, Silence

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

Waiting, Doubt, Stubborn

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Men, Self, Two

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

Christian, Heart, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.71, Vintage

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

Relationship, Helping, Humans

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Doors, Four, Stranger

Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.17, Harvard University Press

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Life And Death, Evil, Unity

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

Beautiful, Lying, Twilight

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

Faith, Stars, Luck

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

Mean, Men, Events

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

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Independence, Few Words

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.106, Vintage

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Family, Home, Son

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

Happiness And Love, World, Sacred

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

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