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Albert Camus
French
Philosopher
Born:
Nov 7
,
1913
Died:
Jan 4
,
1960
Every
Life
Love
Man
World
You
Related authors:
Blaise Pascal
Henri Bergson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Michel de Montaigne
Montesquieu
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Simone Weil
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Happiness
Life
Man
Simple
Harmony
Except
He
Between
Leads
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
Me
Walk
Beside
Follow
My Friend
Lead
Friend
Front
May
Behind
Just
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
Moving On
Broken
Blessed
Bend
Shall
Never
Hearts
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.
Albert Camus
Life
God
Religion
My Life
Live
Out
Would
Find
Rather
Than
Die
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Me
Winter
Summer
Finally
Invincible
Learned
Depth
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
Freedom
World
Rebellion
Free
Become
Way
Only
Absolutely
Absolutely Free
Free World
Deal
Existence
Very
Act
Your
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
Man
World
Ethics
Beast
Wild
Wild Beast
Without
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.
Albert Camus
Happiness
Life
You
Be Happy
Happy
Will
Looking
Meaning Of Life
Live
Consists
Never
Continue
Meaning
Meaning Of
Search
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
Love
Valentines Day
Duty
Only
Know
To Love
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
Good
Ignorance
World
Evil
Understanding
Good Intentions
Almost
Always
Lack
May
Intentions
Much
Harm
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Respect
Fear
Nothing
Despicable
More
Than
Based
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
Future
Giving
Lies
Generosity
Toward
Real
Present
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert Camus
Life
Joy
Living
Defeat
Our
More
Only
Gives
Bottom
Absurdity
Because
Very
Maybe
The Only Thing
Which
Us
Thing
Basically
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
Man
Only
He
Refuses
Creature
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
People
Welfare
Alibi
Tyrants
Particular
Always
Been
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
Work
Art
Needs
Confession
Guilty
Confess
Conscience
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
Mind
Sign
Vulgar
Right
Need
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
Albert Camus
People
Cause
Innocent
Innocent People
Deaths
Justifies
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus
Good
Freedom
Will
Free
Free Press
Press
Bad
Never
Most
Course
Without
Anything
Certainly
There is no love of life without despair of life.
Albert Camus
Life
Love
Despair
No Love
Without
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
Love
You
Random
Fall
Despair
Alibi
Only
Feel
Provide
Going
Anyway
Necessary
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
Thought
Hopeless
Fall
Own
Back
Top
Punishment
Futile
Dreadful
Would
Some
More
Had
Weight
Rock
Condemned
Labor
Mountain
Than
Gods
Stone
Rolling
Whence
Reason
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
Beautiful
Truth
Light
Every
On The Contrary
Object
Like
Blinds
Falsehood
Contrary
Enhances
Twilight
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
Man
Struggle
Heart
Happy
Heights
Enough
Must
Towards
Itself
Fill
Imagine
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
Rebellion
Every
Innocence
Essence
Being
Nostalgia
Act
Appeal
Expresses
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.
Albert Camus
Man
Exact
Above
He
Failures
Like
Know
Qualities
Himself
Accept
How
How Far
Go
His
Hand
Foretell
Far
Should
Things
Palm
Defects
Number
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