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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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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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
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And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions
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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.
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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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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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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience