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Albert Camus

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.


— Albert Camus


#born #corner #deeds #door #great

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.


— Albert Camus


#be happy #happy #kind #makes #money

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.


— Albert Camus


#love #the-plague #love

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).


— Albert Camus


#men

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.


— Albert Camus


#nature

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.


— Albert Camus


#nihilism #philosphy #existentialism

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.


— Albert Camus


#heartbreak #life #love #relationships #sadness

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules


— Albert Camus


#morality #ethics

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.


— Albert Camus


#life

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.


— Albert Camus


#always #find #justify #lack #philosophy






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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