Albert Camus

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"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."	Art
"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
"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
"A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life."	Friendship, Dreams
"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
"Better to die on one's feet, than live on one's knees."	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
"Life is the sum of all your choices."	Quotations
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."	Courage
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."	Happiness
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"	Happiness
"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
"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."	Economics, History
"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
"To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."	Miscellaneous
"To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."	Quotations
"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."	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