Albert Camus

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Biography : French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
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Albert Camus - Quotes

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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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 nihilism.
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To misname things is to contribute to the world's miseries.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus