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Albert Camus was a French author and philosopher, born on November 7, 1913, and died on January 4, 1960. Known for his unique existentialist philosophy and profound insights into human suffering, Camus' works include 'The Stranger', 'The Plague', and 'The Myth of Sisyphus', which have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature.

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

Knows Football Morality Obligation American Football

Author:Albert Camus

“To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.”

Author:Albert Camus

“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.”

Knows World Feels Greater Generations Mines Tasks Reform Destroying Preventing

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“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 things that unite us all.”

Knows Reality Desire Order Speak Common Struggle Sea Rain

Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)”

Knows Football Morality Morale

Author:Albert Camus

“A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?”

Knows World I Can Conditions Wall Stranger Appetite Assault Conquest Bumps

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.”

Thinking Knows Wells Intelligent

Author:Albert Camus

“But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.”

Knows Littles Reason Simple Party Nice Fit Obligation Generous Our Time Do You Know Spares Mistress Cocktails Spare Time Cocktail Parties Testimonial

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.”

Ifs Knows May Hands Earth Asks Moral Code Comprehension

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”

Knows Hard Remember Cutting

Book:The plague: translated from the French

Source: The plague: translated from the French

“Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.”

Knows Long Love Is Darkness Struggle Lovers Painful Realization Recognition Flash Reconciliation Lovers And Friends

Author:Albert Camus

“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”

Knows Ideas Exaggerated

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.”

Knows Heart Waiting Greater Cold Solitude Weight Regions

Book:The fall, & Exile and the kingdom

Source: The fall, & Exile and the kingdom

“Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.”

Ifs Knows Doe Problem Today Atheism Atheist Saint Concrete

Author:Albert Camus

“The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.”

Knows I Can States Action Individual Freedom Midst Conception Prisoner Freedom Of Thought Thoughts And Actions

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.”

Knows Doe Values Fighting Evil Given Peace Support Despite Rebellion Rebel Finding Peace

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.”

Ifs Knows Made Meetings Perceive Happiness And Love

Author:Albert Camus

“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.”

Knows Mean Home Today Mother Tomorrow Died Stranger Yesterday Funeral Deceased Telegrams

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.”

Knows World Way Believe Hard Sky Blue Crash Existential Blue Sky Hard To Believe Recurring Pestilence

Book:The plague: translated from the French

Source: The plague: translated from the French

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

Thinking Knows Life Should Action Knowledge Psychology Our Lives Personality Shapes Oneself Self Knowledge Knowing Oneself

Book:Carnets: 1935-1942

Source: Carnets: 1935-1942

“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“It is easier to kill what we do not know.”

Author:Albert Camus

“We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.”

Ifs Knows Writing Speak Common Misery Justification

Author:Albert Camus

About the Author

Born: November 7, 1913
Died: January 4, 1960
Known for: Author
Quotes: 1477

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