“Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in...”
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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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“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
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“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”
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“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to u...”
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“There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die...”
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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
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“Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”
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“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
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“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
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“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
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“The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.”
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“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are o...”
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“Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.”
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“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 be...”
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“No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.”
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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
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“Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”
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