French - Philosopher | November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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