Albert Camus quotes - page 14

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. (Albert Camus)
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. View quote
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate. View quote
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. View quote
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We're going forward, but nothing changes. View quote
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. View quote
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No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. View quote
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. View quote
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. View quote
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. View quote
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We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink. (Albert Camus)
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. View quote
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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. View quote
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. View quote
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. View quote
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The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass. View quote
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. View quote
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long. View quote
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I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards. View quote
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In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions. View quote
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world. (Albert Camus)
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. View quote
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The truth, as the light, makes blind. View quote
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. View quote
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. View quote
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