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Albert Camus

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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.


— Albert Camus


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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.


— Albert Camus


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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.


— Albert Camus


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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


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What is a rebel? A man who says no.


— Albert Camus


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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.


— Albert Camus


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


— Albert Camus


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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.


— Albert Camus


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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.


— Albert Camus


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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.


— Albert Camus


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About Albert Camus






Did you know about Albert Camus?

Soon after the event on 6 August 1945 he was one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition and disgust to the United States' dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. To distinguish his ideas scholars sometimes refer to the Paradox of the Absurd when referring to "Camus's Absurd".

In an interview in 1945 Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked. In 1949 Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement of which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

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