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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stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
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[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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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.
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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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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.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.