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Albert Camus

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.


— Albert Camus


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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.


— Albert Camus


#fate #scorn

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.


— Albert Camus


#encounter #happy #history #misery #periods

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.


— Albert Camus


#commentators #readers #those #who #write

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.


— Albert Camus


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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.


— Albert Camus


#deaths #dreadful #every #except #him

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.


— Albert Camus


#either #ends #every #heretic #oppressor

We are all special cases.


— Albert Camus


#special

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


— Albert Camus


#exist #just #necessary #never #once

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.


— Albert Camus


#his #idea #love #man #once






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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