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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

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  • By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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  • Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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  • Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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  • Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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  • Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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  • Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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  • For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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  • Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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  • From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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  • God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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  • He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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  • How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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  • Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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  • I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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  • If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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  • If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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  • If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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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 default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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  • In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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