Quotes by Albert Camus

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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  • 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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  • Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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  • Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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  • One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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  • Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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  • 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.
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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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  • Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
    Original: La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
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  • Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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  • Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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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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  • Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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  • Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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  • That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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  • The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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  • The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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  • The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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  • 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.
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  • The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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  • The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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