“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
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“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
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“Integrity has no need of rules.”
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
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“Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.”
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“Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.”
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“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.”
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“One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.”
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“In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are thin...”
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering f...”
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“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”
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“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”
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“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
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“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
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“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
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“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
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“Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.”
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