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Albert Camus (/kæˈmuː/; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ( listen); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 43 in 1957, the second youngest recipient in history.

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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

Completely, Happy, Room, Rooms, Time

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Giving, Longer, Men, Tragedy, World

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Giving, Greatest, Love, Misfortunes, Nothing, Unloved

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Commitment, Death, Drama, Full, Human, War

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Order, Solitude, Turn, World

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Philosophical, Philosophy, Problem, Serious, Suicide

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Effort, Failed, Make, Matter, Mean, Winning

. . . there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.

Back, Day, Girl, Interested, Men, Sorry

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

Ideas, People, Forget, Say, Time

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Exact, Head, Heart, Imagination, Trying

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Frontiers, Appearing, Frontier

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Back, Brings, Graver, Greater, Science, Travel

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Craving, Independence, Living, Men

Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

Keep, Leaps, Morning, Sickened, Waiting, Yield

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Felt, Heart, Royal, Sea

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Air, Ambition, Happiness, Life, Open

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

History, Human, Myth Of Sisyphus, Regret, Significant, Successive

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

Blind, Enemy, Power, Powerful, Tokneel, Tongue

I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

Ifs, Know, Knows, Live, Want

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Honesty, Quiver, Somebody, Speak, Speaks

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