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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
French existentialist author & philosopher [more author details]

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.: Albert Camus
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.: Albert Camus
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.: Albert Camus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.: 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
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
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.: Albert Camus
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.: Albert Camus
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We only know of one duty, and that is to love.: Albert Camus
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.: Albert Camus
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.: Albert Camus, Caligula
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.: Albert Camus, Happy Death
What is a rebel? A man who says no.: Albert Camus, L'Homme revolte (The Rebel), 1951
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.: Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall),1956
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.: Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.: Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.: Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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