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Albert Camus

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?


— Albert Camus


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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.


— Albert Camus


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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.


— Albert Camus


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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.


— Albert Camus


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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.


— Albert Camus


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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.


— Albert Camus


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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.


— Albert Camus


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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.


— Albert Camus


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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.


— Albert Camus


#knack #stupidity #way

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.


— Albert Camus


#advantage #always #deceive #disadvantage #first






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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