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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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  • Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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  • A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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  • Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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  • A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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  • A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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  • A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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  • Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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  • After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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  • Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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  • Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
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  • All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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  • All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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  • As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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  • As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!
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  • At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
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  • At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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  • Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
    Original: L'automne est un deuxième printemps où chaque feuille est une fleur.
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  • Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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  • Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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  • But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
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What are the most famous quotes from Albert Camus?

The two most famous quotes from Albert Camus are:

  • "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
  • "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

When did Albert Camus live?

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