Albert Camus quotes - page 4

Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated. (Albert Camus)
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order .
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To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false. (Albert Camus)
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
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A fate is not a punishment.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.
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When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. (Albert Camus)
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
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