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Albert Camus

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


— Albert Camus


#future #present #real

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.


— Albert Camus


#pacifism #principles #war #die

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.


— Albert Camus


#bend #blessed #broken #hearts #never

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.


— Albert Camus


#going-on #suicide #survival #courage

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.


— Albert Camus


#self-centeredness #selfishness #happy

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.


— Albert Camus


#writers #writing #civilization

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.


— Albert Camus


#autumn #every #flower #leaf #second

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.


— Albert Camus


#truth

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.


— Albert Camus


#life #religion #life

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.


— Albert Camus


#loyalty #relationships #love






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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