Albert Camus quotes - page 15

Murder is terribly exhausting. (Albert Camus)
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. View quote
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man. View quote
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin. View quote
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation. View quote
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. View quote
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. View quote
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four. View quote
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I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. View quote
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. View quote
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We are condemned to live together. (Albert Camus)
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. View quote
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. View quote
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Am well. Thinking of you always. Love. View quote
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It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. View quote
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. View quote
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. View quote
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim. View quote
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. View quote
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. View quote
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What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. (Albert Camus)
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. View quote
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head. View quote
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And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. View quote
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I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so? View quote
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