Albert Camus Quotes

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Albert Camus

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : November 7, 1913

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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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.

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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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.

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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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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.

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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.

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus