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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 17

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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Greater

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Evil, Claims, Remedy

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Passion, Truth Is, Virtue

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Life, May, Interest

"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

Liberty is dangerous.

Liberty, Dangerous

Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

Children, Philosophy, Perfect

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Inspirational, Life, Waiting

La Chute (The Fall) (1956)

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Silence, Calamity, Plague

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Steps, Accepting, Dead Ends

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

Hands, Evening, Shoulders

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Anger, Done, Lasts

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Life, Taken, Discovery

Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

God, Should Have, Ifs

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Believe, Virtue, Wells

Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

Writing, Needs, Genius

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Art, Struggle, Artist

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

Proof, Begin Again, Persons

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

Mistake, Believe, Heart

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Happiness, Lying, Joy

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.20, Vintage

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

Sometimes

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.54, Vintage

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Despair, Nihilism, Desire

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.57, Vintage

For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

Self, Order, People

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

Flower, Hands, Separation

Albert Camus (1961). “The Outsider”

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

Believe, Nihilism, Doe

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.69, Vintage

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Rejection, Unity, Artistic Creation

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

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