Albert Camus Quote #1
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is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely
life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis.
To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive.Albert Camus Quote #2
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Albert Camus Quote #3
...he said firmly, God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble. Obviously, I replied, they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it. I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
Albert Camus Quote #4
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...
Albert Camus Quote #5
...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is.
Albert Camus Quote #6
...luck is not to be coerced.
Albert Camus Quote #7
...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
Albert Camus Quote #8
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
Albert Camus Quote #9
[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. 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. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.
Albert Camus Quote #10
… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
Albert Camus Quote #11
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?
Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.
Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.Albert Camus Quote #12
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus Quote #13
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus Quote #14
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
Albert Camus Quote #15
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Albert Camus Quote #16
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus Quote #17
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
Albert Camus Quote #18
A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.
Albert Camus Quote #19
A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is dense, sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature or a landscape can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millenia.
Albert Camus Quote #20
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
Albert Camus Quote #21
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus Quote #22
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
Albert Camus Quote #23
Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.
Albert Camus Quote #24
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus Quote #25
After awhile you could get used to anything.
Albert Camus Quote #26
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert Camus Quote #27
Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour une raison. Mais on peut très bien se suicider pour deux raisons. Non, ça ne leur entre pas dans la tête. Alors, à quoi bon mourir volontairement, se sacrifier à l'idée qu'on veut donner de soi ? Vous mort, ils en profiteront pour donner à votre geste des motifs idiots, ou vulgaires. Les martyrs, cher ami, doivent choisir d'être oubliés, raillés ou utilisés. Quant à être compris, jamais.
Albert Camus Quote #28
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus Quote #29
Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.
Albert Camus Quote #30
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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