Tag: Albert Camus

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

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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.

Albert Camus

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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Albert Camus

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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Albert Camus

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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Albert Camus

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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

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