Albert Camus

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"The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind."	Miscellaneous
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."	Monarchy
"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world."	Ability, Men
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."	Generosity, Military, War
"I love my country too much to be a nationalist."	Love
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."	Happiness, Joy, Money
"History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."	History
"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself."	Intelligence
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."	Beginnings, Excellence
"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."	Age, Love
"'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners."	Monarchy
"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."	Duty, Lies, Men
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."	Duty, Knowledge, Love
"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."	Miscellaneous
"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."	Crime, Death, Life
"What is a rebel? A man who says no."	Men
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."	Happiness, Joy, Life
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."	Friends, Love
"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."	Change, History, Men
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Beginnings	Change	Charity
Children	Courage	Crime
Darkness	Death	Dreams
Duty	Economics	Excellence
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Freedom	Friends	Friendship
Generosity	Greatness	Happiness
History	Honesty	Intelligence
Joy	Knowledge	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Money
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Quitting	Quotations	Reading
Responsibility	Sin	Sleeping
Success	Time	Truth
War	Wisdom	Writing