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
finally invincible learned midst nature
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing
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All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football
imagine
You don't have to imagine what they would have to say,
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And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
real prophet century
The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
nature real blood
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
together
We are condemned to live together.