Albert Camus quotes - page 12

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history. (Albert Camus)
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says. View quote
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If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. View quote
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. View quote
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. View quote
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. View quote
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. View quote
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. View quote
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself. View quote
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. View quote
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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals! (Albert Camus)
To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. View quote
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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. View quote
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. View quote
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. View quote
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives. View quote
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. View quote
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. View quote
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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. View quote
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. View quote
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret. (Albert Camus)
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. View quote
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom ''charitable'' souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. View quote
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. View quote
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. View quote
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