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Quotes from Notebooks — Albert Camus

1913–1960 France

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6 quotes

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Notebooks (1963)

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Notebooks (1942)

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Notebooks (1942)

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

Notebooks (1942)

The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world — and to pay attention to man.

Notebooks (1942)

So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.

Notebooks (1942)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Camus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.