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Albert Camus

French/Algerian novelist and journalist; b. 1913; d. 1960

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (16 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.

Albert Camus, The Stranger, in Life and Death

The Stranger (paperback)

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (34 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

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

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus, in Law and Politics and Success and Failure

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (75 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

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