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Albert Camus

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

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus, in Law and Politics and Success and Failure

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The Stranger (paperback)

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

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

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation