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Albert Camus



Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French author, journalist, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner. His writings contributed to the rise of absurdism, and though he was often considered an existentialist, he rejected that description and remained critical of the philosophy.

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The Myth of Sisyphus

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus—featured here in a stand-alone edition—is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

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The Plague

A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus’ iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

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Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHuman relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future—and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI don’t want to be a genius—I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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