French - Philosopher | November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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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.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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