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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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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Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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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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Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
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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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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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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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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 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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There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.