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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

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Comme les grandes œuvres, les sentiments profonds signifient toujours plus qu'ils n'ont conscience de le dire.

German
Wie große Kunstwerke bedeuten tiefe Gefühle immer mehr, als ihnen bewusst ist.




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Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.




Quotes for: consciousness


Quotes

Quotes for: consciousness


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





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





It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.





World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.





Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.





Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.











Quotes

Quotes for: Feeling


Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.





Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.





Love is not merely a sentiment, it is an art.





All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.





Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.











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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