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Albert Camus

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About Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihil…

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.