Morality, when formal, devours. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus …. 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 waiting-rooms sunday office 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 money taken happiness What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. Albert Camus should christian world Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future. Albert Camus art-is giving art The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Albert Camus distance voice men A true masterpiece does not tell everything. Albert Camus masterpiece doe The truth, as the light, makes blind. Albert Camus blind light Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. Albert Camus happiness two son It is easier to kill what we do not know. Albert Camus easier knows What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die? Albert Camus power order hands If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. Albert Camus sorrow joy sometimes To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus should inspiring motivational Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears. Albert Camus marriage hair numbers Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. Albert Camus uprising our-world reality Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. Albert Camus heroism difficult Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. Albert Camus republic forgiveness impossible The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass. Albert Camus discipline success way There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up. Albert Camus light essence ideas Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak. Albert Camus able speak lying Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism. Albert Camus men long death
