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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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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Those who write clearly have readers.