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“I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“For nothing in the world is it worth turning one's back on what one loves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“I know now that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of a great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“once I'd learned the trick of remembering things, I never had a moment's boredom.”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“They're fretting simply because they won't let themselves go. And I know what I'm talking about. ”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ”
Albert Camus
,
The Stranger
“One always finds one's burden again.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“The important thing . . . is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Something must happen—and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”
Albert Camus
,
The Fall
“the one way of making people hang together is to give 'em a spell of plague.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“We always end up by having the appearance of our truths.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Expression begins where thought ends.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of righting a plague is, common decency.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when all this ends. For the moment I know this; there are sick people and they need curing.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”
Albert Camus
,
The Plague
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