Albert Camus: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

Albert Camus era filosofo, saggista e scrittore francese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

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Albert Camus libro Il mito di Sisifo

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“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.”

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Albert Camus libro Il mito di Sisifo

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man

“The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.”

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Albert Camus libro La caduta

The Fall (1956)

“In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.”

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Albert Camus libro La peste

The Plague (1947)

“Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.”

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Albert Camus libro L'uomo in rivolta

Variant translation: Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
The Rebel (1951)

“The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world — and to pay attention to man.”

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Notebooks (1942–1951)

“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence — they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all.”

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Albert Camus libro A Happy Death

A Happy Death (1971)

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.”

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Albert Camus libro Il mito di Sisifo

"Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka"
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.”

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Albert Camus libro Lo straniero

The Stranger (1942)

“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

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"Summer in Algiers" http://books.google.com/books?id=N0bNUqDVKJgC&q=%22If+there+is+a+sin+against+life+it+consists+perhaps+not+so+much+in+despairing+of+life+as+in+hoping+for+another+life+and+in+eluding+the+implacable+grandeur+of+this+life%22&pg=PA153#v=onepage, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1955)

“Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.”

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Albert Camus libro La peste

The Plague (1947)

“Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.”

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Albert Camus libro L'uomo in rivolta

Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)

“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.”

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Albert Camus libro Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

"The Artist and His Time"
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960)

“Let’s not beat around the bush; I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”

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Albert Camus libro La caduta

The Fall (1956)

“The papers were always talking about the debt owed to society. According to them, it had to be paid. But that doesn't speak to the imagination. What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.”

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Albert Camus libro Lo straniero

The Stranger (1942)

“This is the truth," we say. "You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.”

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Albert Camus libro La caduta

The Fall (1956)

“The artist reconstructs the world to his plan.”

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Albert Camus libro L'uomo in rivolta

Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)

“"I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.”

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Albert Camus libro Il mito di Sisifo

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus

“All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football.”

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Ce que, finalement, je sais de plus sûr sur la morale et les obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois.
"Ce que je sais de plus sûr à propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au sport que je le dois", sentence parfois modifiée en : "C'est au football que je le dois !"
As quoted by Jean Noury (November 10, 1965); published in: Archives du Sénat français, Comptes rendus des débats, Volume 4, 1965, p. 1578 (PDF page 28) http://www.senat.fr/comptes-rendus-seances/5eme/pdf/1965/11/s19651110_1551_1598.pdf

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”

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Albert Camus libro Il mito di Sisifo

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning