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Albert Camus

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.


— Albert Camus


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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.


— Albert Camus


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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.


— Albert Camus


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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.


— Albert Camus


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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.


— Albert Camus


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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.


— Albert Camus


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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.


— Albert Camus


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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.


— Albert Camus


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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.


— Albert Camus


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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.


— 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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