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Biography - Albert Camus:

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

He recognized in himself that power to forget which only children have, and geniuses, and the innocent. Innocent, overwhelmed by joy, he understood at last that he was made for happiness.



Translation

Translation

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French
Il reconnut en lui cette faculté d'oubli qui n'appartient qu'à l'enfant, au génie et à l'innocent. Innocent, bouleversé par la joie, il comprit enfin qu'il était fait pour le bonheur.

German
Er erkannte in sich jene Fähigkeit zu vergessen, die nur dem Kind, dem Genie und dem Unschuldigen zu eigen ist. Unschuldig, überwältigt von Freude, begriff er endlich, dass er für das Glück geschaffen war.




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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes for: joy


Quotes

Quotes for: joy


I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.





Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.





Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.











Quotes for: genius


Quotes

Quotes for: genius


Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.





Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.





Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.





Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.





In fact, every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius to a certain extent a child.





The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.











Quotes

Quotes for: Forgetting


Don't forget to love yourself.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.





It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.





Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.











Quotes

Quotes for: child


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.











Quotes

Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.












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