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

—Albert Camus

About 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...

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

—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

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

—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.

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

—Albert Camus

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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

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