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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Fact Famous In Fact Landlady Only

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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 advance of our failings on so long a road.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Advance Always Certain Conquered Dangerous Elusive Failings Goals Hard Liberty Live Long March Must Mysterious Our Painfully Resolutely Road Toward Truth Truth Is Two

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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

~Albert Camus

Topics: About Football Know Morality Most Obligations Owe Surely

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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Also Case Day Every Every Day Fact Feels Heart Human Human Heart In Fact Life Lying Make More Only Saying Simpler Than True

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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Able Country Justice Like Love Should Still To Love

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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

~Albert Camus

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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, scattered to the winds.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Against Anarchy Because Being Creating Deaths Die Disorder Entire Frightful Makes Making Me Means Order Rebels Scattered Thousand Winds Without Would

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Always Exhausted Experience Love Really Reverence You

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Become Claim Consent Give Ideologies Lead Methods Name Our Our World Reality Rebellion Revolution Thought Which World

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Actions Desire Dictate His Hope Live Man Useless Wants Will

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7th, 1913

Died: January 4th, 1960

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