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Albert Camus

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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.


— Albert Camus


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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.


— Albert Camus


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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.


— Albert Camus


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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!


— Albert Camus


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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.


— Albert Camus


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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.


— Albert Camus


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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.


— Albert Camus


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


— Albert Camus


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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.


— Albert Camus


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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.


— Albert Camus


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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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