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Albert Camus

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Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. His works — including *The Stranger*, *The Plague*, and *The Myth of Sisyphus* — explore themes of absurdity, rebellion, and the search for meaning in an indifferent universe.

“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”

— Albert Camus

History

All Quotes by Albert Camus

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

— Albert Camus

Freedom

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

— Albert Camus

Art

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

— Albert Camus

Happiness

“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”

— Albert Camus

Inspirational

“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”

— Albert Camus

Love

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

— Albert Camus

Government

“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”

— Albert Camus

War

“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”

— Albert Camus

Love

“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.”

— Albert Camus

Happiness

“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”

— Albert Camus

Intelligence

“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

Good

“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”

— Albert Camus

Life

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

Nature

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

— Albert Camus

Finance

“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”

— Albert Camus

Truth

“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”

— Albert Camus

Life

“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”

— Albert Camus

Society

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

— Albert Camus

Life

“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”

— Albert Camus

History

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”

— Albert Camus

Alone