Albert Camus

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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."	Ability, Fear
"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
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."	Generosity, Military, War
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."	Sleeping
"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world."	Ability, Men
"The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits."	Miscellaneous
"The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits."	Quotations
"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
"The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind."	Miscellaneous
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."	Courage
"The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."	Intelligence
"The truth, as the light, makes blind."	Darkness, Honesty, Light
"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
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."	Philosophy
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."	Wisdom
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."	Happiness
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"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
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."	Charity
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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