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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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Albert Camus |
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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
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suicide
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Albert Camus |
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Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
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Albert Camus |
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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living
life
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Albert Camus |
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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.
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philosophy
nihilism
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Albert Camus |
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If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them ... they could perceive what they have made of us.
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Albert Camus |
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stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
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Albert Camus |
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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immortality
the-fall
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Albert Camus |
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Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
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Albert Camus |
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It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm - this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement."
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Albert Camus |
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How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing can withstand.
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Albert Camus |
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All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.
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Albert Camus |
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When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
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Albert Camus |
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mn byshtr b shkhst yftgn Hss hmdrdy mykhnm t b mqdsyn. gmn mykhnm khh mn qhrmny w tqds r zyd nmypsndm. anchh brym jlb st nsn bwdn st.
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Albert Camus |
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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Albert Camus |
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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the-myth-of-sisyphus
thinking
thought
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Albert Camus |
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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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time
retirement
idleness
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Albert Camus |
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I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boasting, especially if I did so with that shattering discretion that was my specialty. It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in the regard to all the for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I a..
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self-awareness
self
self-esteem
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What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My... my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension."
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Albert Camus |
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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Albert Camus |
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On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
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Albert Camus |
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O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!"
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irony
salvation
selfishness
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Albert Camus |
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Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ..
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rebellion
justice
revolution
guilt
terror
nostalgia
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Albert Camus |
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Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."
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religion
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Albert Camus |
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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
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happiness
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Albert Camus |
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When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.
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Albert Camus |
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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Albert Camus |
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They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
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Albert Camus |
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I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
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Albert Camus |
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What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country ... we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits ... this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing ... Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as di..
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travel
fear
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Albert Camus |
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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Albert Camus |
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness--I can't say it.
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Albert Camus |
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.
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Albert Camus |
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That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
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Albert Camus |
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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.
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Albert Camus |
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means..
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Albert Camus |
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How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
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men
women
albert-camus
notebooks
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Albert Camus |
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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.
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Albert Camus |
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Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
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Albert Camus |
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Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en meme temps une excellente raison de mourir.
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torment
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Albert Camus |
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97a5b7e
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As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd ..
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poetry
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Albert Camus |
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The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
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Albert Camus |
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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Albert Camus |
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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Albert Camus |