Albert Camus
French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956)
Lived from: 1913 - 1960
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: France
Born: 7 november 1913 Died: 4 january 1960
Quotes 121 till 134 of 134.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
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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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