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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Listen, Tar, ... This is the real problem: whatever happens, I shall always defend you against the firing squad. But you will be obliged to approve my being shot. Think about that.
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It could only be a record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refus
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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
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Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life
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If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
great judgement last secret shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
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An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself
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Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic
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Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.