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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Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.