Albert Camus

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"I love my country too much to be a nationalist."	Love
"The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind."	Miscellaneous
"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself."	Intelligence
"A friend is the little prize in the cereal box of life."	Friendship, Dreams
"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world."	Ability, Men
"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."	Happiness, Joy, Life
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."	Intelligence
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."	Men
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."	Crime, Men, Writing
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."	Courage
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"	Happiness
"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."	Miscellaneous
"Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man."	Miscellaneous
"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."	Duty, Lies, Men
"Better to die on one's feet, than live on one's knees."	Wisdom
"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."	Change, History, Men
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."	Sleeping
"The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."	Intelligence
"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."	Wisdom
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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