Albert Camus
Albert Camus was an Algerian-French author and Absurdist philosopher.
Found 58 thoughts of Albert Camus
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
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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
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.
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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all
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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.
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