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Biography - Albert Camus:

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

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



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Translation

(French)



French
Culture : cri des hommes devant leur destin.




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Quotes for: culture


Quotes

Quotes about culture:


Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.





We must cultivate our garden.





Philosophy is the culture of the soul.





Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.





Anything that degrades culture shortens the paths that lead to servitude.





It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'











Quotes for: destiny


Quotes

Quotes about destiny:


Fate shuffles the cards and we play.





The stars of your destiny are in your heart.





A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.





A Destiny is not a punishment.





Each life makes its destiny.





What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.











Quotes

Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.












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