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Albert Camus

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.


— Albert Camus


#create #live #men #must #point

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


— Albert Camus


#die #knew #life #our #ourselves

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.


— Albert Camus


#blinds #contrary #enhances #every #falsehood

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.


— Albert Camus


#cost #nothing #passion #spares #taste

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


#between #correct #everything #half-way #history

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.


— Albert Camus


#concerned #happy #must #others #too

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.


— Albert Camus


#people #sleep #some #some people #talk






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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