Albert Camus

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"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
"'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners."	Monarchy
"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
"The truth, as the light, makes blind."	Darkness, Honesty, Light
"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."	Happiness, Joy, Knowledge
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."	Men
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."	Ability, Fear
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."	Forgiveness, Generosity, Happiness
"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."	Nature, Quitting, Sin
"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."	Excellence, Greatness
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."	Freedom, Liberty, Opportunity
"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
"In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land."	Fear
"It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison."	Fear
"A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life."	Love
"May I take the ridiculous position of saying that I do not like the was [Andre] Gide exalts the body. He asks it to restrain its desire to make it keener. Thus he comes dangersouly near to those who in brothel slang are called involved or brain-workers. Christianity also wants to suspend desire. But, more natural, it sees a mortification in this. My friend Vincent, who is a cooper and junior breast-stroke champion, has an even clear veiw. He drinks when he is thirsty, if he desires a woman he tries to go to bed with her, and would marry her if he loved her (this hasn't yet happened). Afterward he says: "I feel better"-- and this sums up vigorously any apology that might be made for satiety."	Wisdom
"Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day."	Wisdom
"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
"The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power."	Economics, History
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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