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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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door
After a certain age every man is responsible for his face
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
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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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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