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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.

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

— Albert Camus

Life

All Quotes by Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Death

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

— Albert Camus

Love

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”

— Albert Camus

Happiness

“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”

— Albert Camus

Death

“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”

— Albert Camus

God

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

— Albert Camus

Fear

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

— Albert Camus

Life

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

— Albert Camus

Future

“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.”

— Albert Camus

Good

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

— Albert Camus

Life

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

— Albert Camus

Experience

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

Intelligence

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

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Money

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

— Albert Camus

War

“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 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.”

— Albert Camus

Love

“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.”

— Albert Camus

Change

“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”

— Albert Camus

Love

“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”

— Albert Camus

History