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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

(1913 - 1960)

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
Game - Mindset - Philosophy - Suicide
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Albert Camus

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The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
Mindset - Trial
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Albert Camus

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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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Albert Camus

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Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
Criminal - Crying - Protesting - Trial
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Albert Camus

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When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.
Strength
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Albert Camus

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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
Countries - Imagination - Man - Sharing
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Albert Camus

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

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I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
Ability - Complain
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Albert Camus

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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
Guilt
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Albert Camus

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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
Boredom - Man - Memory - Someday
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Albert Camus

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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
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Albert Camus

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This is the century of fear.
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Albert Camus

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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
Death - Difficulty - Human
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Albert Camus

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Calling - Discovery - Truth
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Albert Camus

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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
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Albert Camus

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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
Death - Production
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Albert Camus

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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
Destructiveness - Generosity
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Albert Camus

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In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.
End - Guilt - Pure
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Albert Camus

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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
Help - Man - Wellness
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Albert Camus

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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
Emotions - Man - Wellness
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Albert Camus

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The innocent is the person who explains nothing
Innocence
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Albert Camus

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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
Belief - Memory
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Albert Camus

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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
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Albert Camus

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My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
Forgiving
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Albert Camus

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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Stupid
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Albert Camus

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To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
Game - Loss - Teaching
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Albert Camus

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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
Actions - End - Mindset - Start - Taking
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Albert Camus

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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
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Albert Camus

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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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Albert Camus

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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
Death - Man - Perfection - Proposal
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Albert Camus

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Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Speaking
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Albert Camus

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