Albert Camus

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"The truth, as the light, makes blind."	Darkness, Honesty, Light
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."	Intelligence
"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
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."	Life, Men
"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
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."	Men
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."	Ability, Fear
"Integrity has no need of rules."	Miscellaneous
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."	Men
"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
"The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."	Intelligence
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."	Crime, Men, Writing
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."	Sleeping
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."	Freedom, Liberty, Opportunity
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."	Philosophy
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."	Wisdom
"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
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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