Albert Camus

Philosopher, Writer

Albert Camus was a French philosopher and writer known for his exploration of absurdism, particularly in works like 'The Stranger' and 'The Myth of Sisyphus'.

Born
November 7, 1913
Died
January 4, 1960
Quotes
985
Rank
#25

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"As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life."

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"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."

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"I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live."

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"Freedom is the right to never have to lie."

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"At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare."

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"No ends, simply means."

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"He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me."

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"Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing."

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"There is only one class of men, the privileged class"

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"To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing)."

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"For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving."

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"For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity."

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"Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath."

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"Why must one love rarely to love well?"

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"For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference."

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"Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses."

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"Some are created to love, while the others - to live."

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"I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live."

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"If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him."

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