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Albert Camus

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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.


— Albert Camus


#chapter #true-love #love

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning


— Albert Camus


#life

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.


— Albert Camus


#growth #motivation #freedom

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful


— Albert Camus


#experience

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.


— Albert Camus


#love #death

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.


— Albert Camus


#death

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.


— Albert Camus


#war #love

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.


— Albert Camus


#meaning #men

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.


— Albert Camus


#humor #intelligent-humor #think #funny

J'écoutais mon cœur. Je ne pouvais imaginer que ce bruit qui m'accompagnait depuis si longtemps pût jamais cesser.


— Albert Camus


#death #heart #imagination #la-mort #death






About Albert Camus






Did you know about Albert Camus?

Soon after the event on 6 August 1945 he was one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition and disgust to the United States' dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. To distinguish his ideas scholars sometimes refer to the Paradox of the Absurd when referring to "Camus's Absurd".

In an interview in 1945 Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked. In 1949 Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement of which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

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