Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate. Albert Camus More Quotes by Albert Camus More Quotes From Albert Camus Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it. Albert Camus lasts anger done What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth? Albert Camus body men heaven I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am. Albert Camus stronger writing needs Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. Albert Camus justified feelings way We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us. Albert Camus dream Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. Albert Camus liberty freedom ideas Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. Albert Camus psychology humans ideology We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back. Albert Camus able power answers We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty. Albert Camus exercise loss heart Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. Albert Camus used The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue. Albert Camus sea adventure long There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying. Albert Camus pain real world [Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. Albert Camus distance race long Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat. Albert Camus tongue powerful enemy He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals! Albert Camus drama war commitment Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus goal two long The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine. Albert Camus birth revolution artist On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art. Albert Camus adventure art moving A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself. Albert Camus clerks office men Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting. Albert Camus dangerous liberty exciting
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