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Albert Camus

Nationality: French Algeria
Profession: philosopher, author, journalist
From: November 7, 1913 To April 5, 1960
47 Years

AboutAlbert Camus

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in French Algeria. He was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. According to his essay The Rebel, His whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. Albert Camus was the second youngest philosopher who bestowed, in 1957, with the Noble Prize in Literature, at the age of 44. After 2 years of winning Noble prize, Albert Camus died in a car accident at January 4, 1960.

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Albert Camus

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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. "

Life is the sum of all your choices.

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous merely to be normal.

To create is to live twice.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

If the world were clear, the art would not exist.

Man is the only animal that refuses to be what he is.

There is no happiness if the things we believe in are different than the things we do.

Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

Art does not tolerate reason.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

"And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive. "

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

"Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. "

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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

Every artist wants to be recognized. So do I.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

"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. "

"I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored,... Read More "

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. "

"My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here."

"Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we must utter, not words of regret, but words of hope, of the dreadful hope of men isolated with their fate. "

"I come at last to death and to the attitude we have toward it. On this point everything has been said and it is only proper to avoid pathos. Yet one will never be sufficiently surprised that everyone lives as if no one "knew." This is because in... Read More "