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Albert Camus

French/Algerian novelist and journalist; b. 1913; d. 1960  ·  4 aphorisms  ·  no comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (229 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

[aphorist] Albert Camus, The Stranger, in [category] Life and Death

The Stranger (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (729 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

[aphorist] Albert Camus, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (212 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

[aphorist] Albert Camus, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (300 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

[aphorist] Albert Camus, in [category] Work and Recreation

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