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Albert Camus

Read through the most famous quotes from Albert Camus




Non, ce n'était pas moi qui comptais, ni le monde, mais seulement l'accord et le silence qui de lui à moi faisait naître l'amour.


— Albert Camus


#nature #love

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.


— Albert Camus


#existentialism #probably-bullshit #love

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.


— Albert Camus


#pleasure #soul #death

So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.


— Albert Camus


#dreaming-of-amelia #lost #progress #the-fall #change

… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.


— Albert Camus


#romance #romance-novels #romantic #home

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.


— Albert Camus


#inspirational

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.


— Albert Camus


#freedom #the-west #freedom

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.


— Albert Camus


#happiness #human #death

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.


— Albert Camus


#alone #anyone #cher #days #dreadful

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.


— Albert Camus


#cannot #create #must #undergo #you






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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