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Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956)

Lived from: 1913 - 1960

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 7 november 1913 Died: 4 january 1960

  • We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
  • We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
  • Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
  • The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  • More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
  • 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.
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  • If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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  • In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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  • Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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  • Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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  • To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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