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    Albert Camus

    Read through the most famous quotes from Albert Camus




    We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #before #body #daily #death #get

    Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #being forgotten #between #choose #forgotten #friend

    Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #breathe #children #clean #clean air #disenfranchised

    As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #big city #city #desert #i #life

    All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #modern #power #reinforcement #revolutions #state

    At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #any #corner #face #feeling #man

    Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #death #efforts #men #only #seriousness

    It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #like #painting #paintings #your

    Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #asking #charm #clear #getting #question

    Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #dies #goes #life #rotten #soulless






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    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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