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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

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus

Life Personality Our Ourselves Shape Knew Perfectly Continue Die Should

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. Albert Camus

Only Fact Famous In Fact Landlady

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. Albert Camus

Death Struggle Reality Speak About Know Common Order Against Us Sea Unite Things Rains Necessity Desire

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. Albert Camus

Life Lose Give Normal Order Little Away

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. Albert Camus

Me History Natural Everything Correct Sun Indifference Misery Between Well Half-Way Taught Placed Believing Kept

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. Albert Camus

Love You Experience Exhausted Always Reverence Really

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. Albert Camus

Love Man Back Once Small He Idea His Precious Turns

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

Culture Men Face Destiny Cry

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. Albert Camus

Reality World Rebellion Thought Become Revolution Our Claim Our World Give Lead Name Ideologies Methods Which Consent

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Albert Camus

God Alone Master Dreadful Weight Days Without Anyone Who

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. Albert Camus

Work Single Every Preserves Says Draws Throughout Lifetime He Crumble Him Within His Source Up Artist Which Deep

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Albert Camus

Hope Man Will Live His Dictate Wants Useless Actions Desire

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