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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Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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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.
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Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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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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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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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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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate - for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.
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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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An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself
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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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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.