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    Albert Camus

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    What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #love #romance #life

    I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #humor #death

    But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #genuine #humanism #imagination

    I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #humanity #humour #man #problems #genius

    Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #alive #life #sleep #life

    They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #love

    I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #judgment

    It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #logic

    Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible. ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #hardship #seasons #self #strength #summer

    If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt) ↗


    — Albert Camus

    #ethics #philosophy #tony-judt #ethics






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    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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