Authors - Albert Camus
Brief Biography
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960) was a French author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1599by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Quote 2206by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Quote 2278by Anonymous on 27/01/2011
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Quote 2702by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Quote 2766by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
Quote 3248by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
Quote 3643by Anonymous on 08/02/2011
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Quote 4669by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Quote 5233by Anonymous on 06/06/2011
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Quote 5553by Anonymous on 15/07/2011
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Quote 5843by Anonymous on 30/08/2011
Life is shaped by the people you meet every day.
Quote 5878by Anonymous on 03/09/2011
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Quote 8253by Anonymous on 30/04/2012
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Quote 8919by Anonymous on 05/06/2012
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Quote 9185by Anonymous on 24/06/2012
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Quote 9456by Anonymous on 31/07/2012
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
Quote 9702by Anonymous on 15/08/2012
It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
Quote 10256by Anonymous on 24/09/2012
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.
Quote 10360by Anonymous on 28/09/2012
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Quote 10884by Anonymous on 06/11/2012
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Quote 11079by Anonymous on 22/11/2012
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Quote 11099by Anonymous on 23/11/2012
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Quote 11204by Anonymous on 01/12/2012
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Quote 11589by Anonymous on 10/01/2013
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Quote 11868by Anonymous on 27/01/2013
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Quote 12432by Anonymous on 12/04/2013
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Quote 13004by Anonymous on 09/06/2013
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.
Quote 13570by Anonymous on 04/08/2013
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Quote 13945by Anonymous on 24/09/2013
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
