Albert Camus

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"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."	Economics, History
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."	Experience
"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
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."	Friends, Love
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."	Happiness, Joy, Money
"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
"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?"	Children
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."	Monarchy
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."	Philosophy
"Life is the sum of all your choices."	Quotations
"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
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."	Art
"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."	Age, Love
"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
"What is a rebel? A man who says no."	Men
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."	Generosity, Military, War
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."	Happiness
"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
"Integrity has no need of rules."	Miscellaneous
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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