Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 November 1913
CountryFrance
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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Life is a sum of all your choices.
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To give all, to sacrifice all without expecting to get anything inreturn--this is love.C'est cela l'amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.
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To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough
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) it is the image of this woman, sitting idly be her Algiers window indifferently watching life pass her by. He pities his mother but that is not the same as love. Feeling this detachment, he can begin to understand her unhappiness.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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...There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
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Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.