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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.

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

— Albert Camus

Truth

All Quotes by Albert Camus

“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

— Albert Camus

Best

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

Intelligence

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

— Albert Camus

Art

“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”

— Albert Camus

Friendship

“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”

— Albert Camus

Art

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

— Albert Camus

Finance

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.”

— Albert Camus

Movingon

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

— Albert Camus

War

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”

— Albert Camus

Death

“For 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.”

— Albert Camus

Life

“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

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

— Albert Camus

Love

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”

— Albert Camus

Death

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”

— Albert Camus

Great

“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

“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”

— Albert Camus

Faith

“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

“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.”

— Albert Camus

Beauty

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

— Albert Camus

Future

“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