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Albert Camus

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.


— Albert Camus


#contrary #die #impossible #love #oneself

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.


— Albert Camus


#any #enough #faith #force #insure

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.


— Albert Camus


#call #discover #first #others #those

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.


— Albert Camus


#confide #rarely #than #those #who

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.


— Albert Camus


#change #good #great #i #just

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.


— Albert Camus


#creative #only #production #productive #society

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.


— Albert Camus


#learning #lies #only #progress #real

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.


— Albert Camus


#condition #cost #friendship #how #nothing

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.


— Albert Camus


#man #only #refuses

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.


— Albert Camus


#give #life #little #lose #normal






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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