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Biography : French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Albert Camus - Quotes

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus - Carnets /

That's what a genius is: an intelligence that knows its limits.
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To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus

Art is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
Albert Camus - The Plague /

habit

Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

friendship

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
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Man is not entirely to blame; it was not he who started history; nor is he entirely innocent, since he continues it.
Albert Camus - L'Été /

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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love

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus

experience

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

courage

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus

love

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus

life

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
Albert Camus

life

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

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