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Albert Camus
French
Philosopher
Born:
Nov 7
,
1913
Died:
Jan 4
,
1960
Every
Life
Love
Man
World
You
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Henri Bergson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Montesquieu
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Albert Camus
Love
Friendship
Never
Often
Ends
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
Way
Charm
Clear
Without
Answer
Question
Yes
Getting
Asking
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
Man
Age
Face
Every
Responsible
His
After
Certain
Certain Age
Alas
Every Man
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
Friendship
Truth
Passion
Nothing
Cost
Sincerity
How
Condition
Taste
Any
Which
Spares
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus
Creative
Society
Only
Production
Productive
Based
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
Albert Camus
You
Rebellion
Somewhere
Feeling
Way
Some
Without
Exist
Cannot
Justified
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Albert Camus
Freelance
Only
Join
Remains
Take
He
Part
Combat
Armies
Without
Least
Committed
Artist
Refuses
Refusing
Really
Regular
Who
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Albert Camus
Man
Together
World
Absurd
Links
Depends
Them
Much
Moment
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus
Fate
Scorn
Cannot
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus
Death
Daily
Before
Living
Thinking
Habit
Lead
Towards
Get
Irreparable
Which
Race
Acquiring
Us
Body
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
Albert Camus
Obligations
About
Morality
Football
Know
Most
Surely
Owe
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.
Albert Camus
Music
Art
Will
First
Wish
Analysis
Kind
Dream
Must
Only
Shall
Feel
Understand
Does
Truly
Fertile
Conducive
Move
Which
Then
Us
Reason
Tolerate
Appreciate
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert Camus
Law
Innocent
Victim
Society
Innocence
Other
Claim
Guilty
Must
Only
Lay
Absolutely
Retaliation
Individuals
Between
Primitive
Supposed
Operate
Sure
Question
Represent
Short
Form
Note
Cut
Even
Whom
Two
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Albert Camus
Everyone
Knows
Govern
Means
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
Truth
Passion
Nothing
Cost
Taste
Any
Which
Spares
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert Camus
Nature
Religion
Happy
Sky
Feeling
Harmony
Torn
Born
Hostility
Without
Began
Poor
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus
Death
Men
Argument
Only
Sincerity
Efforts
Convinced
Your
Seriousness
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus
Those
Write
Clearly
Readers
Who
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus
War
Clouds
Myth
Unlimited
Announce
Inevitably
Train
Storm
Production
Brings
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
Albert Camus
Unavoidable
Both
Violence
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Albert Camus
Politics
Death
Made
Adversary
Because
Accepting
Am
Wanting
Incapable
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert Camus
World
Once
Never
Exist
Just
Order
Again
Necessary
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
History
Happy
Those
Silencing
Misery
Weep
Periods
Encounter
Want
Acknowledge
Which
Who
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
Albert Camus
Time
Me
Honesty
Somebody
Every
Every Time
Inside
Someone
Speaks
Who
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus
Passion
Real
Real Passion
Century
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Servitude
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Albert Camus
Happiness
Difficult
Heroism
More
Accessible
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