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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.

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

— Albert Camus

Inspirational

All Quotes by Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Love

“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”

— Albert Camus

Freedom

“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”

— Albert Camus

Hope

“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”

— Albert Camus

Nature

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

— Albert Camus

Truth

“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

“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

“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

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

— Albert Camus

Fear

“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

“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

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

— Albert Camus

Freedom

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

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Life

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

— Albert Camus

Society

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

— Albert Camus

Nature

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

— Albert Camus

God

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

— Albert Camus

Finance