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Albert Camus Quotes
French writer and philosopher
(1913-1960)



"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
-- Albert Camus

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
-- Albert Camus

"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
-- Albert Camus

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day."
-- Albert Camus

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
-- Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
-- Albert Camus

"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.
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-- Albert Camus

"The struggle towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
-- Albert Camus

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
-- Albert Camus

"It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm -- this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the 'why' arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement."
-- Albert Camus










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