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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 39

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Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Believe, Men, Desire

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

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

Honesty, Speak, Quiver

"Notebooks, 1951-1959".

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

Character, Thinking, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.92, Vintage

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

Struggle, Love Is, Long

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Facts, Fame, Parallelogram

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Cease

The absurd is sin without God.

Sin, Absurd, Absurdity

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

Giving, Judging, Pieces

Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Religious, Art, Mean

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.270, Vintage

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

Anger, Order, Europe

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Eulogy, Enemy, Made

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

Succeed, Steps, Torture

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

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

Gratitude, Sex, Bed

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.67, Vintage

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Acting, Nazism, Logic

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

Past, Oil, Silence

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.15, Vintage

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Death, Running, Risk

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

Dream, Sweet, Party

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.55, Vintage

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Sky, Tree, Looks

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Art, Writing, Disinterest

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

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

Names, Yesterday, Long

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.80, Vintage

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

Mean, Government, Law

Finally, and most of all, words failed him.

In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.

Mean, Thinking, Meals

Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.241, Vintage

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Doe, Ashes, Venture

Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

Ideas, Laziness, Made

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