Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
556
AUTHOR:
Albert Camus (1913–60)
QUOTATION:
My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury of our history: “Let us rejoice.” Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfort-loving Europe and at being faced with cruel truths.
ATTRIBUTION:
ALBERT CAMUS, “Create Dangerously,” lecture given at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, December 1957.—Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death, trans. Justin O’Brien, p. 270 (1961).
