Albert Camus quotes - page 17

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. (Albert Camus)
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. View quote
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right. View quote
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. View quote
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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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. View quote
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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. View quote
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In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. View quote
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself. (Albert Camus)
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. View quote
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My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face. View quote
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. View quote
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The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much. This is what everyone learned yesterday, thanks to the formidable concert of opinion coming from radios, newspapers, and information agencies. View quote
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As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. View quote
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Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. View quote
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Before the terrifying prospects now available to humanity, we see even more clearly that peace is the only goal worth struggling for. This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments - a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason. (Albert Camus)
The Grand Inquisitor is old and tired, for the knowledge he possesses is bitter. View quote
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I start out here from the principle of his innocence. That innocence is to be feared. View quote
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Even before the bomb, one did not breathe too easily in this tortured world. Now we are given a new source of anguish; it has all the promise of being our greatest anguish ever. View quote
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To be true, a succession of works can be but a series of approximations of the same thought. View quote
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