Albert Camus
France
7 Nov 1913 // 4 Jan 1960
Writer / Journalist / Philosopher
7 Nov 1913 // 4 Jan 1960
Writer / Journalist / Philosopher
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others
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
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians
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
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
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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