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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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  • Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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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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  • Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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  • Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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  • Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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  • More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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  • Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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  • The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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What are the most famous quotes from Albert Camus?

The two most famous quotes from Albert Camus are:

  • "Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."
  • "If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

When did Albert Camus live?

Albert Camus was born in 1913 and died in the year 1960.