Camus Quoting, pt 12

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

Short story.  A priest, happy with his lot in a country parish in Provence.  By accident, he has to succor a man sentenced to death just before his execution.  Losses his faith becuase of it.

April, 1940

Camus Quoting, pt 11

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace.  But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not.  It all becomes a question of style.

September, 1939

Camus Quoting, pt 10

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

At war.  People who argue about the amount of danger at each front.  “Mine was the most dangerous.”  When everything has been made vile and sordid, they still try to establish an order of merit.  That is how they survive.

April, 1939

Camus Quoting, pt 6

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

In the same way a writer’s death makes us exaggerate the importance of his work, a person’s death makes us exaggerate the importance of his place among us.  Thus the past is made up of death, which peoples it with illusions.

February, 1939

Camus Quoting, pt 5

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

Notice in the barracks: “Drink drives out the man and brings out the beast.”  Which makes men understand why they like it.

Sunday, 1938

Camus Quoting, pt 4

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

June, 1938

Camus Quoting, pt 3

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

The spirit of revolution lies wholly in man’s protest againt the human condition.  Under the different forms which it assumes, it is, in this respect, the only eternal theme of art and religion.

February, 1938

Camus Quoting, pt 2

From Notebooks 1935-1942:

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without  greatness.  Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.  The same is true of everything.  But now our task is to create a new man within ourselves.  We must make our men of action into men of ideals, and our poets into captains of industry.

December, 1937

Camus quoting

Classes are officially out for me.  Time to sit on my butt and learn what it means to be un-employed.

Rather than writing clever posts, I’m going to simply offer a small load of quotes from Albert Camus.  Maybe a dozen or so.  All quotes taken from Notebooks 1935-1942.

Today’ s quote:

In the local movie theater, you can buy mint-flavored lozenges with the words: “Will you marry me one day?” “Do you love me?’ written on them, together with the replies: “This evening,” “A lot,” etc.  You pass them to the girl next to you, who replies in the same way.  Lives become linked together by an exchange of mint lozenges.

November 8, 1937