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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Born: Nov 7, 1913
Died: Jan 4, 1960
Every Life Love Man World You
Related authors: Blaise Pascal Henri Bergson Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. Albert Camus
Man Respect Rebellion Meet Meeting Minds Must Limits Exist Discovers Itself Begin Where Order Rebel
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Albert Camus
People Cause Matter Innocent Will Defends Innocent People Crowds Attacks Blind Permanent Disgrace Suffer
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus
Stupidity Way Knack Getting
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. Albert Camus
Day Every Day Wait Judgment Every Takes Place Last
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus
Truth First Absurd Concept Essential
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
Life Despairing Consists Hoping Implacable Sin Perhaps Another Against Grandeur Much
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus
World Occasion Understand Order Turn Away
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. Albert Camus
People Some People Other Some Talk While Sleep
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus
Government Sometimes Nothing Definition More Policy Conscience
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus
Silence World Our Ears Those Melody Carry Perceive Never Occasionally Sounds Escape Quiet Same Vibrations Which Eternally Notes Us Chord Even
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus
Future Freedom Culture Gift Creation Society Relative Perfect Implies Without Authentic Jungle Any Even Why
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus
Hope Fool Coward He Condition Human Human Condition Who
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. Albert Camus
Great Thoughts Beginning Corner Restaurant Born Revolving Often Door Deeds Works Ridiculous Street Street Corner
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. Albert Camus
Time Beauty Despair Out Unbearable Minute Drives Over Glimpse Like Offering Eternity Us Should Whole Stretch
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. Albert Camus
Painting Like Your Paintings
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. Albert Camus
Truth Truth Is Dangerous Liberty Goals Long Live Our Elusive Must Mysterious Advance Road Toward Failings Always Certain Hard Painfully Conquered March Two Resolutely
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus
Me Anarchy Thousand Would Entire Winds Scattered Because Without Makes Making Deaths Frightful Die Being Order Against Creating Means Disorder Rebels
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. Albert Camus
Judge Beauty Nothing Community Others Rather Obliged He True Between Himself Without Understand Scorn Than Artist Artists Cannot Midway Tear Why Away
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus
Work Art Great Man Heart Simple Slow Three First Nothing Trek Those Detours Through Opened Rediscover His Whose Presence Images Two
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus
Finance Spiritual Be Happy Happy People Money Snobbery Think Kind Without Makes
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Albert Camus
Problem Suicide Philosophical Philosophical Problem Truly Serious
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus
Slip Besides Citizens Immoral More Directly Indirect Price Rob Goods Without Than Cannot Note Taxes
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. Albert Camus
Generation World Will Mine Consists Destroying Preventing Feels Perhaps Knows Greater Itself Reform Task Doubtless Even Each Each Generation
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus
Happiness You Only Share Generously Forgiven Them Successes Your Consent
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. Albert Camus
Today Saying Good Man Mind Will Evil Believe Society Right Mind Must Case Absolutely No-One He Because His Off Any Cut Assert Right Amount
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. Albert Camus
Knowledge Suffering Intelligence World Mind Stretched Nihilism Complete Our Neither Find Fact Point Nor Itself Modern Any Where
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