Albert Camus quotes - page 13

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. (Albert Camus)
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing. View quote
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? View quote
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. View quote
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. View quote
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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. View quote
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me. View quote
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. View quote
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. View quote
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. View quote
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. (Albert Camus)
You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets. View quote
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There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it. View quote
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. View quote
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Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. View quote
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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. View quote
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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. View quote
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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak. View quote
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. View quote
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. View quote
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. (Albert Camus)
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. View quote
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. View quote
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Proof is never definitive, after all one has to begin again with each new person. View quote
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. View quote
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