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Albert Camus

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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.


— Albert Camus


#hope #hopelessness #suicide #consciousness

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.


— Albert Camus


#life

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.


— Albert Camus


#albert-camus #camus #heart #love #pain

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.


— Albert Camus


#confess #confession #conscience #guilty #guilty conscience

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.


— Albert Camus


#happiness #sharing #success #you #forgiveness

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.


— Albert Camus


#kami #the-stranger #love

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.


— Albert Camus


#nationalism #patriotism #love

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.


— Albert Camus


#men #men

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.


— Albert Camus


#rebellion #love

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.


— Albert Camus


#money #pursuit-of-happiness #life






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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