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Albert Camus

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There is not love of life without despair about life.


— Albert Camus


#life

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.


— Albert Camus


#art #detours #first #great #heart

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.


— Albert Camus


#despair #drives #eternity #glimpse #like

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.


— Albert Camus


#appeal #being #essence #every #expresses

Peace is the only battle worth waging.


— Albert Camus


#battle

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.


— Albert Camus


#hope #philosophy #existentialism

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.


— Albert Camus


#humor #humor

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.


— Albert Camus


#concept #essential #first #truth

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.


— Albert Camus


#ignorance

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.


— Albert Camus


#emotion






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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