Albert Camus

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"'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners."	Monarchy
"A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life."	Love
"A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life."	Friendship, Dreams
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."	Art
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."	Art
"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
"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
"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself."	Intelligence
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."	Intelligence
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures-be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."	Philosophy
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures-be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."	Wisdom
"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."	Miscellaneous
"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."	Quotations
"Better to die on one's feet, than live on one's knees."	Wisdom
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"	Happiness
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."	Monarchy
"Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day."	Wisdom
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."	Friends
"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."	Miscellaneous
"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."	Success, Life
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Ability	Age	Art
Beginnings	Change	Charity
Children	Courage	Crime
Darkness	Death	Dreams
Duty	Economics	Excellence
Experience	Fear	Forgiveness
Freedom	Friends	Friendship
Generosity	Greatness	Happiness
History	Honesty	Intelligence
Joy	Knowledge	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Money
Nature	Opportunity	Philosophy
Quitting	Quotations	Reading
Responsibility	Sin	Sleeping
Success	Time	Truth
War	Wisdom	Writing