Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author, philosopher
7 November 1913 — 4 January 1960

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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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Man is the only animal who refuses to be what he is.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

True love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

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In order to be, never try to seem.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

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