Albert Camus Quotes
Albert Camus was born in November 7, 1913 . He was a french author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th-century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the surrealist movement of Andre Breton
Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel prize for Literature for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times . He was the second – youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature, after Rudyard kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award.
He is the shortest-lived of any Nobel literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after-receiving the award. He died in January 4, 1960 –Wikipedia
1.” In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer “
2.” 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 “
3.” Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is “
4. ” Live to the point of tears “
5. ” you know what charm is : a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question “
6.” Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal “
7.” The Purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself “
8.” There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for “
9.” Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day “
10.” At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman “
11.” Don’t walk behind me: I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me : I am not follow just walk beside me and be my friend “
12.” To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others “
13.” you can’t create experience, you under go it “
14.” The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion “
15.” It is the job of thinking people not to be the side of the executioners “
16.” Blessed are the hearts that can bend: they shall never broken “
17. ” Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them “
18.” Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth “
19.” without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies “
20.” Truth, like light blind. falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object “
21.“ We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
22. ” 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 “
23. ” It is necessary to fail in love. If only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway .”
24.” Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret .”
25.” Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship -never
26.” some people talk in their sleep , lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
26.” The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants . “
27.” The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy .”
28.” Martyrs, my friend ,have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood- never. “
29.” No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people .”
30.” There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
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