Quotations from

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus ( kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.

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Quotes from Albert Camus

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

—Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

—Albert Camus

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

—Albert Camus

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

—Albert Camus

America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic.

—Albert Camus

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

—Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

—Albert Camus

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

—Albert Camus

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this.

—Albert Camus

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

—Albert Camus

After all, it is better to be a good bourgeois like the others than a bad bohemian, a false aristocrat, or a second-rate intellectual.

—Albert Camus

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

—Albert Camus

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

—Albert Camus

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

—Albert Camus