Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 November 1913
CountryFrance
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Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema
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In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer
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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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Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower
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I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.
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You don't have to imagine what they would have to say,
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football
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Listen, Tar, ... This is the real problem: whatever happens, I shall always defend you against the firing squad. But you will be obliged to approve my being shot. Think about that.
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How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong!
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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It could only be a record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refus
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.