{"id":549,"date":"2013-08-15T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=549"},"modified":"2013-08-18T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T17:08:13","slug":"albert-camus-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Albert Camus quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotation<\/a>Camus, Albert (1913 – 1960), French existentialist author & philosopher
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\nIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.<\/i><\/p>\n

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.<\/i><\/p>\n

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?<\/i><\/p>\n

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.<\/i><\/p>\n

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.<\/i><\/p>\n

There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.<\/i><\/p>\n

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.<\/i><\/p>\n

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.<\/p>\n

<\/i>All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.<\/p>\n

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.<\/p>\n

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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